Peristeria lindenii Rolfe 1891 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
Another View Photos courtesy of Gilberto Escobar Copyright ©, Leslie Garay Archives
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Common Name Linden's Peristeria [Belgian Plant collector 1800's]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]
This robust, caespitose, large sized, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species comes from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador in montane rain forests and is found at elevations of 800-1000 meters with ovoid, tapering upward pseudobulb subtended by several pairs of short scarious sheaths with 3 apical, plicate, lanceolate-elliptic, acute or acuminate, narrows conduplicate below into a short, channeled, petiolate base, dark green leaves and blooms on a basal, horizontal, short to 1 1/2" [4 cm] long, densly congested, sub-umbellate, racemose inflorescence arising as a new growth ememrges with small, concave, ovate-triangular floral bracts spotted with dark purple and carries fragrant flowers occuring in the winter and spring.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 977 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 150 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo = P ephippium
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