Lycaste powellii Schltr. 1922 SECTION Lycaste Photo courtesy by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Walter M. Shinn---
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Common Name Powell's Lycaste [American Botanist early 20th cen]
Flower Size to 4" [to 10 cm]
This is a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species found in the Canal Zone area of Panama and Northwestern Colombia at elevations of 50 to 800 meters in dry forests with ellipsoid-ovoid, smooth to ridged pseudobulbs carrying elliptic-lanceolate, plicate leaves where it blooms on an erect, few at once, slender, to 5 1/2" [14 cm] long inflorescence arising basally on a mature leafed pseudobulb with fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers occurring in the summer and fall and has spined psuedobulbs.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 65. Panama Schlechter 1922; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Orchid Digest vol 71-74 Oakley 2007; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008
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