Pescatorea wallisii Linden & Rchb. f. 1869 Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

Column Detail Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl ©, plant grown by Arturo Carillo

Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

Pale Color Variety Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Wallis' Pescatorea [German Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size 3 to 4"

Found in western Ecuador in tropical rainforests at elevations of 70 to 1219 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with imbricate, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths attenuate to the distichous, strap-shaped, acute, conduplicate towards the base leaves arranged in a fan shape that blooms on an axillary, single flowered, 5 to 7" long inflorescence with a long-lasting, extremely fragrant flowers occuring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Bollea schroederiana R.H. Torr. ex Sander 1895; Pescatorea euglossa Rchb. f. 1876; Pescatorea roezlii Rchb. f. 1874; Pescatoria schroederiana Rolfe 1900; Zygopetalum euglossum Rchb. f. 1876; Zygopetalum wallisii Rchb. f. 1869

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 201 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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