Lycaste macrobulbon Lindl. 1850-1 SECTION Intermediae Photo courtesy of Jill Godfrey
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Common Name The Large Bulbed Lycaste
Flower Size to 4" [10 cm]
This is a Colombian, large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte with large, broadly cylindrical or oblong-ovoid, compressed, sulcate or rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, plicate, deciduous, long petiolate, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate leaves that blooms on an erect, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, inflorescence with several loose sheaths, giving rise to fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers in the early spring and summer and can be located at elevations around 1200 to 2000 meters and is often found in conjunction with pit viper's nests.
Synonyms Lycaste macrobulbon var youngii Rolfe 1892; Lycaste pleiochroma Rchb.f. 1860; Maxillaria macrobulbon Hook. 1846
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 4 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 3 1991; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 1998; Orchid Digest Vol 71-74 Oakley 2007; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008
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