Prosthechea vitellina [Lindl] Higgins 1997 Photo by Jay Pfahl ©
Inflorescence Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Plants and Flowers ensitu in Mexico
Plant en situ in Mexico Photo courtesy of Weman Bussey.
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Common Name The Yolk-Yellow Prosthechea - In Mexico - "Manuelitos"
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]
This medium sized, epiphytic species can be found in Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua in oak, pine/oak, and scrub around lava flows and cloud forests at altitudes of 1400 to 2600 meters where it is cool to cold growing and blooms in the spring through fall on a apical, 12" to 18" cm [30 to 45cm] long, simple to few branched inflorescence that has a basal sheath and arises on a mature, conical-ovoid, slightly compressed pseudobulb with two, apical, subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic, obtuse leaves carrying 4 to 12, long-lived, orange to deep scarlet, showy, resupinate, wide open flowers and requires a dry winter rest ending with the onset of new growth in the early spring.
Synonyms Encyclia vitellina (Lindl.) Dressler. 1961; *Epidendrum vitellinum Lindl. 1831; Epidendrum vitellinum var autumnale Wilson 1913; Epidendrum vitellinum var giganteum Warner 1887-8; Epidendrum vitellinum var majus Veitch 1866; Hormidium vitellina [Lindl] Brieger 1977; Pseudencyclia vitellina (Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum vittelinum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum vitellinum; Die Orchideen #9 33-36 tafel 9 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Hormidium vitellinum photo fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum vitellinum drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 as Encyclia vittelina; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum vitellinum drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 1 1983 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 7 1985 photo as Encyclia vittelina; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 25 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 as Encyclia vitellina drawing fide; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 5 2000 photo; The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo
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