!Galeandra baueri Lindley 1832 SECTION RivularidaePhoto by © Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Bauer's Galeandra [Austrian Botanical Painter 1800's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

This is a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte found on trees in pine lands and in open forests usually on palms and found at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters in altitude. They can grow into large clumps and are found in Mexico through Panama and Colombia as well as Surinam, with closely spaced on the rhizome, fusiform, elongate, 10" [25 cm] psuedobulbs enveloped by several, imbricating, scarious sheaths with 8 or so leaves, linear-lanceolate, pointed, basally clasping, coriaceous yet flexible with prominent veining. It has an apical, curving, often branched, to 12" [30 cm] long, lax, pendulous inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb with a few long-lasting, fragrant, funnel shaped flowers that open in succession in the spring through early summer. They need bright light and regular frequent waterings and fertilizer through the growth season but with the yellowing of the deciduous leaves in the fall it should be lessened until new growth appears in the late winter to early spring.

Synonyms Galeandra batemani Rolfe 1892; Galeandra cristata Lindley 1844; Galeandra funckiana Lindl. ex Rchb.f 1881; Galeandra funckii Lindl. ex Rchb.f. 1856

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 8 1970 photo; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 746 Hamer 1982 as G batemanii drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 2 1983 drawing; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0340 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1435 Atwood 1992 drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 57 Vol 3 1993 as G batemanii photo fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo not = G biloba

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