Polycycnis barbata (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1855
Side View Of Flower Photos courtesy of David Jubineau
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Common Name The Bearded Polycicnis
Flower Size 2" [4 cm]
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 160 to 1500 meters with ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, suberect, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a pendant, basal, to 12" [30 cm] long, pubescent, loosely few to many flowered inflorescence with fragrant, short lived flowers occuring in the spring.
Synonyms *Cycnoches barbatum Lindl. 1849; Polycycnis gratiosa Endres & Rchb. f. 1871
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 218. 1855; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 7 1992 photo as P gratiosa; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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