Peristeria pendula Hooker 1836

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Common Name The Pendant Blooming Peristeria

Flower Size to 2" [to 5 cm]

This large sized, warm to hot growing, epiphytic species is found from Trinidad & Tobago, Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Northern Brazil, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 700 to 1100 meters with prominent, approximate, ovoid conical to oblong-subconical, deeply sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4 apical, plicate, lanceolate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate leaves with a slender, sulcate petiole and blooms on a 6" [15 cm] long, pendulous, racemose, several [4 to 7] flowered, inflorescence arising on a newly developing pseudobulbs after the leaves have dropped occuring in the winter till spring with highly scented, fleshy flowers.

Synonyms Peristeria lentiginosa Lodd. 1840; Peristeria maculata hort. 1843

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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