Ida locusta (Rchb. f.) A. Ryan & Oakeley 2003 SECTION Idae Ryan & Oakley 2003 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

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Common Name The Locust Green Lycaste

Flower Size to about 4 1/2" [to 11.5 cm]

This is a Peruvian, large sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte found along railway embankments and on limestone rocks or epiphytewith the pseudobulbs protected by leaves or grass and the flwoers and leaves held in full sun around 2000 to 3000 meters in altitude with oblong-ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, long petiolate, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring in cultivation and the fall in situ on a several at once, erect, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, inflorescence with pendant, apple scented, waxy flowers and is found in wet montane forests with a distinct drier winter.

Synonyms Ida locusta var minor Oakeley 2008; *Lycaste locusta Rchb. f. 1879

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970 as L locusta; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 5 1991 as L locusta; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 6 2003 drawing; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008