!Sievekingia suavis Rchb. f. 1871 Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt. Plant Grown by OrchidMania

Full shadeWarm to HotLATE Springto EARLY Summer

Common Name The Soft Sievekingia

Flower Size less than 1" [less than 2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua in lowland tropical rainforests as elevations of 100 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with pyriform, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped by several basal bracts and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, coriaceous, plicate, gradually narrows below into the long, channeled, petiolate, ribbed leaf that blooms on a basal, short to 2" [5 cm], pendulous, 3 to 12 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb occuring in the late spring and early summer.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Beitr. Syst. Pflanzenk.: 3. 1871; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963;Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1160 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1587 Atwood 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchisd Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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