Stanhopea annulata Mansf. 1938 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Side View of Flower Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids

Flower From Below Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name or Meaning The Ring-Shaped Stanhopea

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in southern Colombia, NE Ecuador and Bolivia in tropical wet and wet montane forests on western slopes at elevations of 100 to 950 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with ovate, rugose, black pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, plicate, broadly elliptical, acute leaf with a distinct petiole that blooms at any time of the year on a pendant, 2 flowered inflorescence with large chartaceious bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 317 Dodson 1980

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