!Papperitzia leiboldii [Rchb.f] Rchb. f. 1852

TYPE for the genus

Plant and flower Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

NOCTURNAL LATE

Common Name Leibold's Papperitzia [German Orchid and Bromelliad Collector]

Flower Size 3/4" [1.5 cm]

A dwarf, pendant, fanleafed, cool growing epiphyte that is found in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Vera Cruz at 2377 meters in elevation on Puerto Angel rd. on a small shrub on twigs in full sun about 3 meters from a small stream and has clustered, ovate to elliptic, slightly compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs completely enveloped basally by 2 to 3 distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, articulated leaf and blooms on a basal through the leaf axil, pendant to arching, to 5" [to 12.5 cm] long, few to several [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence arising on a year old pseudobulb and occuring in the late spring and summer and carrying slightly nocturnally scented flowers. This species should be kept on their original twig if at all possible as well as damp and fairly well shaded year round.

Synonyms *Leochilus leiboldii Rchb.f. 1845

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 9 1998 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1060 Hagsater & Soto 2008

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