Peristeria cerina Lindl. 1837 Drawing by Miss Drake and the Edwards Botanical Register

Common Name or Meaning The Wax Colored Peristeria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Trinidad, Guyana and Brazil in wet forests at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, apical, firmly membraneaceous, plicate, 5 to 7 nerved, oblong-lanceolate, acute, basally atttenuate leaves that blooms in the spring on a pendant, to 6" [15 cm] long, 4 to12 flwoered inflorescence enveloped basally by vaginate, sheaths and carrying spotless, waxy, yellow, juniper scented flowers.

Synonyms Lycomormium cerinum (Lindl.) Benth. 1881; Lycomormium minus Kraenzl. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Peristeria guttata drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

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