Sievekingia peruviana Rolfe ex Schweinf. 1943 Photo courtesy of of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name The Peruvian Sievekingia

Flower Size up to 1" [up to 2.4 cm]

A medium sized, cool to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte from Peru with clustered, ovoid, ridged pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate to the conduplicate petiole, acute leaf that blooms with a pendant, short to 3/4" [2 cm] long, subcapitate, racemose inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, floral bracts that exceed the length of the ovary and carrying 4 to 6 flowers, arising on a mature pseudobulb that is found in wet montane forests at altitudes of 1200 to 1500 meters on tree trunks in wet montane forests and it blooms in the fall.

Synonyms Sievekingia peruviana Rolfe 1911

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 ] Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 378 Bennett & Christenson 1995

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