Lycaste crinita Lindl. 1844 SECTION Lycaste Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Haired Lycaste [refers to the hairs on the lip]

Flower Size to 3" [to 7.5 cm]

Nayarit Mx., 914m elev., La Liberdad area, on fallen limb in dense forest.

Very similar to L. aromatica, psudobulbs and leaves more robust, the disc of the lip more pubescent, and the scapes are longer. Found in Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, and Oaxaca Mexico on the Pacific slope at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in tall trees with compressed, ovate, spined after leaf-fall pseudobulbs carrying 3, apical, elliptic, acuminate leaves. This fragrant flowered species blooms in the summer on an erect, several at once, 8" [20 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with several scarious sheathing bracts giving rise to waxy, fragrant flowers held well above the pseudobulbs and may arise with or without the appearance of new leaves.

Synonyms Lycaste micheliana Cogn. 1900; Maxillaria crinita Beer 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 6 1981 photo; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 3 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 no 7 2000 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 71-74 Oakley 2007; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1039 Hagsater & Soto 2008

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