Sievekingia reichenbachiana F. Lehm. ex Rolfe 1898 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

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Common Name Reichenbach's Sievekingia [German Orchidologist 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found as a hot to warm growing, miniature to small sized epiphyte or lithophyte on steep embankments in Ecuador and Colombia occuring in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1400 meters with ovoid, rugose pseudobulbs subtended by distichous, scarious, lanceolate, finely spotted sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, plicate, oblanceolate, gradually narrows below into the long petiolate base leaf that blooms on a sharply pendant, 4" 10 cm] long, few [5] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and has elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate bracts occuring in the summer.

Synonyms Gorgoglossum reichenbachiana F. Lehm. 1897; Gorgoglossum reichenbachianum F. Lehm. ex Schltr. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 298 Dodson 1980; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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