Anacheilium lambda (Linden ex Rchb.f.) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Lambda Anacheilium [refers to the stripes on the flowers forming the letter Lambda]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found near Ocana Colombia at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with compressed spindle-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped by a sheath and carrying 2, apical leaves and a many flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring

Dressler has suggested that this species may actually be a natural hybrid between A baculus and A chacoense.

Synonyms Encyclia lambda (Linden ex Rchb.f.) Dressler 1971; *Epidendrum lambda Linden & Rchb.f. 1854; Prosthechea lambda (Linden ex Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum lambda; *Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 7 Withner & Harding 2004 drawing ok

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