Lycaste longiscapa Mast. 1928 SECTION Fimbriatae Photo courtesy of Wilfried Löderbusch

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Common Name or Meaning The Long-Stemmed Lycaste

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in Ecuador in high sierra on cool steep brush-covered slopes at elevations around 2850 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with ovoid, smooth pseudobulbs carrying 3, apical, erect, plicate, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 24" [60 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence holding the gardenia scented flower way above the leaves.

Synonyms Ida costata (Lindl.) A.Ryan & Oakeley 2003; Maxillaria costata Lindl. 1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 5 1981 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0093 Dodson & Bennett 1989; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 5 1991 as L longiscapa; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 490 Bennett & Christenson 1998

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