Houlletia odoratissima Linden ex Lindl. & Paxton 1852-3
Photo by © David Jubineau
Photo by © Eric Hunt
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Common Name The Scented Houlletia
Flower Size to 3" [7.5cm]
Found from Panama, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil on shaded slopes in wet montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to hot growing, unifoliate terrestrial with ovoid-pyriform, lightly compressed, acute angled edge pseudobulb that is almost enveloped by a basal sheath with a single, narrowly lanceolate, plicate, 7 ribbed leaf with a channeled petiole at the base that blooms on a robust, erect, basal, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, dull purple mottled with green, racemose, several to many flowered inflorescence with a fractiflex rachis, arising on a mature pseudobulb, with 5 to 12, waxy, long-lasting, fragrant flowers occuring in the late summer and fall.
Synonyms Houllettia antioquiensis Hort. ex Bailey 1915; Houlettia boliviana Schlechter 1929; Houlettia buchtieni Kraenzl. 1928; Houlettia juruensis Hoenhe 1910; Houlettia odoratissima var antioquiensis Andre 1870; Houlletia odoratissima var. macrosepala Regel 1885; Houlettia odoratissima var xanthina Rchb.f 1884; Houlettia picta Linden & Rchb.f 1855
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as H picta; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as H juruenensis drawing good; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as H juruenensis drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as H picta; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 1 1973 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 1 1974 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as H juruensis drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photos fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 261 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 as H juruensis photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #2 2009 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #1 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #1 2012 photo not = H lowiana; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #8 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
Houlettia odoratissima var xanthina Rchb.f 1884
Photos by © Dylan Hannon
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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