!Galeottia grandiflora A. Rich 1845 Photo By © Lourens Grobler.

Plant and Flowers Photo Courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Flower Closeup Photo Courtesy of Wilford Neptune.

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Common Name The Large-Flowered Galeottia

Flower Size to about 3 1/2" [9 cm]

This is a medium sized, cool to warm growing, humidity loving, Central American and Colombian, epiphytic species found on trees in open lowland rain forests at 100 to 1100 meters in elevation, with pyriform to ovoid pseudobulbs subtended in youth by a few scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, plicate, ovate-lanceolate leaves that are conduplicate at the base that blooms on a basal, 2 to several flowered, basal, to 8" [20 cm] long, lateral inflorescence arising on a newly maturing psuedobulb that has ovate lanceolate bracts, fragrant, fleshy flowers and blooms in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Batemannia grandiflora [A.Rich]Rchb.f 1856; Mendoncella grandiflora Hawkes 1964; Zygopetalum grandiflorum [A.Rich]Benth & Hkr f. 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1235 Dodson 1985 as Mendoncella grandiflora; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1534 Atwood 1993; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005