Lycaste schilleriana Rchb. f. 1855 SECTION Lycaste Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Schiller's Lycaste [German Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size to 4 3/4" [12 cm]

Found in Colombia as a large sized orchid 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 bloom in the spring although it can be variable on a basal, erect, usually few at once, to 12" [30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and subtended by a few, large, loose, tubular sheathing bracts and with the nodding, waxy, fragrant flowers held among the leaves.

Synonyms Lycaste longisepala C. Schweinf. 1952; Lycaste schilleriana var alba Oakley 2008; Lycaste schilleriana var. lehmannii Regel 1890; Lycaste schilleriana var rosea Oakley 2008;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 4 1964 photo; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 71-74 Oakley 2007; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008

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