Galeandra stangeana Rchb. f. 1856 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Another ColorPhoto courtesy of Jean Claude George
Flower CloseupPhoto courtesy of David Jubineau
Another ClonePhoto courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Stange's Galeandra [German Orchid Gardener 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil at elevations around 120 meters in hot tropical rainforests as a small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with fusiform, pseudobulbs with imbricating, scarious, acute sheaths leafless below and above carrying apical, deciduous, narrow spear-like, basally claping leaves that blooms with a terminal, 1 5/8" [4 cm] long, fractiflex, racemose inflorescence, and can have an occasional basal, lateral branch, that has triangular, tubular floral bracts with fragrant, long lasting, variable in color, successively single flowers occuring in the late summer through winter and arising on a mature pseudobulb.
Synonyms Galeandra pubicentrum C. Schweinf. 1943; Galeandra villosa Barb. Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Orchids of Peru Fieldiana 1st supplement Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 058 Bennett & Christenson 1993
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