Lycaste campbellii C. Schweinf. 1949 SECTION Intermediae

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Campbell's Lycaste [American Orchid Enthusiast and cultivator of species 1900's]

Flower Size less than 1" [less than 2.5 cm]

Found in Panama and Colombia as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte in dense shade at elevations close to sealevel in marshes and primary beach vegetation with close set, sulcate, tapering ovoid, pseudobulbs that have a long spiney apex after leaf fall with ribbed, plicate, deciduous, elliptic leaves that blooms in the spring on a single flowered, erect, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long inflorescence with fragrant, short-lived flowers arising before or with the new growths.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 3 1991; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Orchid Digest Vol 71-74 Oakley 2007; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008

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