Lycaste xanthocheila (Fowlie) Oakeley 2007 SECTION Lycaste Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

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Common Name The Yellow Lipped Lycaste

Flower Size to 2.8" [to 7 cm]

Found in Guatemala and Costa Rica in warm forests at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with smooth dark gren, pyriform pseudobulbs with out spines and a stepped abscission point and carrying three, ribbed, plicate leaves that blooms on a succession of to four at a time, 1.8" to 2.8" [4.5 to 7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers occuring in the summer and fall arising with a new growth.

Part 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 macrophylla subsp xanthocheila Fowlie. 1964

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest vol 71-4 Oct, Nov, Dec 2007; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008

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