Stanhopea anfracta Rolfe 1904 Photo courtesy of Rod Rice and Oasis the Journal

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Common Name The Bent Stanhopea

Flower Size 3 1/4" [8 cm]

A medium sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte from Ecuador and Peru found in the lower levels of very wet cloud forest on the eastern slopes at elevations around 1000 to 2200 meters with ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs topped with a single, apical, elliptic, plicate, acuminate, coriaceous, dark green leaf that gradually narrows below into a channeled petiole and flowers on a pendant, 4 1/2" [12 cm] long, few to several [7 to 13] flowered inflorescence aising on a mature pseudobulb and having several, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate sheaths and subsimilar floral bracts which occurs in the summer in nature and spring in cultivation. Text by Rod Rice--This species tends to always produce a rather large eye spot on the hypochile, where just below the eye spot, the hypochile is sharply kinked forming a sort of “u” shape from a lateral view.

Synonyms Stanhopea wardii Lodd ex Lindl. var venusta Rolfe 1892

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 491 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 574 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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