Lycaste occulta Oakeley 2007 SECTION Lycaste
Photo by P Bertaux and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Orquideas del Valle and their Orchid Catalog
Common Name or Meaning The Hidden Lycaste [a reference to the fact that despite it's large distribution, no one saw it]
Flower Size to 3.6" [to 9 cm]
Found in Guyana?, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 2600 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs with no spine after leaf-fall and carrying 2 apical, plicate, ribed leaves and blooms in the spring and summer on erect, 1.4 to 2.2" [4 to 5.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising with the new growth..
A newer member of the < L macrophylla complex consisting of L dowiana, L fuscina, L guatemalensis, L leucantha, L macrophylla, L measuresiana, Lycaste occulta, L panamensis, L puntarenasensis, L x sanderae, L viridescens, L xanthocheila, L xytriophora,
Synonyms Lycaste occulta var alba Oakley 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #4 2007 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 photo fide; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo hmm
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