!Grobya amherstiae Lindl. 1835 Photo courtesy of Stefan Paeffgan © .

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.

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Common Name Amherst Grobya [English Countess 1800's]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

A small epiphyte that is found in Ecuador and eastern Brazil in humid lowland wet forests at elevations of 200 to 900 meters and is a hot to warm grower that requires moderate shade with densly tufted, erect, ovoid to almost spherical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by persistent, white, fibrous, leaf bases and carries to 6, towards the apex, firm-textureed, erect and arching, linear-lanceolate, subacute, slightly grooved leaves and blooms with a basal, 1 to several [9] flowered, arching to pendant, 6" [15 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with fragrant flowers and narrowly lanceolate bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002;