Ida fulvescens (Hook.) A.Ryan & Oakeley 2003 SECTION Fulvescentes Oakley 2008

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Common Name The Brown-Yellow Lycaste

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela in humid wet forests at elevations of 1600 to 1700 meters as a medium sized warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid, compressed, slightly rugose, longitudinally ribbed pseudobulbs subtended by several scarious nonfoliaceous sheaths and having 2 apical, plicate, elliptical-lanceolate leaves that are cuneate into the petiole and has an erect, inflorescence arising from a mature pseudobulb and having 2 tubular, acuminate bracts and a single floral bract that is 10" [25 cm] long and has a single, nodding flower occuring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Ida fulvescens var. jarae (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) D.E.Benn. & Oakeley 2003; Ida fulvescens var. pallida Oakeley 2003; Lycaste crocea Linden ex Lindl. 1846; Lycaste fulvescens Hook. 1845; Maxillaria fulvescens (Hook.) Beer 1854; Sudamerlycaste fulvescens (Hook.) Archila 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 5 1991 as L fulvescens; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008

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