!Pescatorea cerina (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb. f. 1852
TYPE for the genus
Lighter Colored Variety Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl, plant grown by JEM Orchids
Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name The Waxy Pescatorea
Flower Size to 3" [to 7.5 cm]
Occurring from Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia on the Pacific slopes at altitudes of 800 to 3000 meters in very wet, highland montane forests and cloud forests on the trunks of shady trees, and as such, is a warm to cold growing, medium to large sized epiphyte with no pseudobulbs and erect or arcuate, plicate, subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate base leaves in arranged in a fan shape from which a short to 4" [10cm], axillary, erect or arcuate, single flowered inflorescence arises from the basal leafless sheaths, carrying a fragrant, fleshy, waxy flower occurring in the spring through fall.
Synonyms *Huntleya cerina Lindl. & Paxt 1852-3; Pescatorea costaricensis Schltr. 1923; Zygopetalum cerinum (Lindl.& Paxt.) Rchb. f. 1863
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bot. Zeitung (Berlin). 10(39): 667. 1852; Paxt. Fl. Gard. 3: 62, f. 263. 1852 as Huntleya cerina; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 651. 1861 as Zygopetalum cerinum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 139. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as P costaricensis; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1478 Atwood 1992 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 11 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 3 2006 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 3 2007 photo; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;
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