Prosthechea boothiana [Lindl.] Higgins 1997
Plant and flowers Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Common Name Booth's Prosthechea [English Gardener 1800's] - The Dollar Orchid -
A Florida native, also found in the Caribbean and Mexico in dry scrub forest and tropical deciduous forests as a hot to warm growing, miniature to small sized epiphyte found from sea level to 1500 meters in elevation, commonly called the dollar orchid for the shape of it's psuedobulbs, it grows best on a wood mount in semi shade and will flower in the summer, fall and winter on an apical, 2 to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, simple inflorescence arising from a newly formed pseudobulb that is longer than the leaves and has 1 to 5, long-lived, waxy flowers. This species has suborbicular, compressed, lusterous yellow green pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3 apical, oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, rigid leaves that always pull to one side.
Synonyms Diacrium bidentatum (Lindl.) Hemsl. 1884; Encyclia bidentata [Lindl] Hags, Arenas 1993; Encyclia bidentata subs erythronioides [Small] Hags 1993; Encyclia boothiana (Lindl.) Dressler 1961; Encyclia boothiana subs boothiana 1961; Encyclia boothiana subsp. erythronioides (Small) Hágsater ex Christenson 1996; Encyclia boothiana subs favoris [Rchb.f] Dressler & Pollard 1971; Encyclia boothiana var. erythronioides (Small) Luer 1971; Epicladium boothianum [Lindl.] Small 1913; Epidendrum bidentatum Lindley 1838; Epidendrum boothianum Lindley 1838; Epidendrum boothianum subs erythroniioides [Small] Luer 1971; Epidendrum erythronioides Small 1903; Epidendrum favoris Rchb.f 1874; Hormidium boothianum (Lindl.) Brieger 1960; Prosthechea bidentata (Lindl.) W.E. Higgins 1997; Prosthechea boothiana subs erythronioides [Small] Higgins 1999; Prosthechea boothiana var. erythronioides (Small) W.E.Higgins 1998; Prosthechea boothiana var. erythronioides (Small) Nir 2000; Pseudencyclia boothiana (Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Encyclia boothiana; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Cattleyas and Their Relatives vol 6 Withner & Harding 2005; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005
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