Houlletia wallisii Linden & Rchb. f. 1869 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another FlowerPhoto courtesy of Hans-Gerhardt Seeger

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens

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Common Name Wallis' Houlletia

Flower Size about 2" [about 5 cm]

This large sized, warm to cool growing species can be found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 2400 meters as a terrestrial on steep embankments with a short rhizome giving rise to pyriform pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thin, plicate, elliptic leaf that has a long, slender, basal petiole and blooms at most any time of the year on a basal, basally pendant to apically erect, to 1 1/4' [37.5 cm] long, few [3 to 5] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with very waxy, fragrant [tutti fruiti], non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Houlletia chrysantha L. Linden & André 1871

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 aas H chrysantha; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 438 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0079 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide;

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