Ida jimenezii Oakley 2008 SECTION Ciliatae Photo by Orquideas del Valle and their Orchid Website

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Common Name Jimenez' Ida [Colombian Dicoverer of species current]]

Flower Size 4.4" [11 cm]

Found in Colombia in wet montane forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing orchid with pale green, pyriform to tapered, slightly ridged pseudobulbs with no spines after leaf-fall and carrying 3, pale green, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on an almost horizontal, 9.6 to 12.4" [24 to 31 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with nocturnally fragrant flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008