Stanhopea candida Barb. Rodr. 1877 Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Fragrance Full shadeWarm to Hot LATE Winter to EARLY Spring

Common Name The Snow White Stanhopea

Flower Size 2 3/4" [7 cm]

A medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte found from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as well as Venezuela in wet montane forests high up on large limbs in canopy trees at altitudes of 100 to 600 meters with ovoid, ridged pseudobulbs subtended by several, imbricating, chartaceous bracts and a single, apical, elliptic, acute, stiff, ribbed leaf gradually narrowing below into a long, channeled petiole that blooms on a pendant to lateral, 4" [8cm] long, racemose, one to 5 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with large, subinflated, acuminate, chartaceous bracts and larger, inflated, acuminate floral bracts occurring in the fall.

Synonyms Stanhopea eburnea var. nivea hort. ex Stein 1892; Stanhopea randii Rolfe 1894

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as S randii; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 492 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 590 Dodson 1983; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 12 1993 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 385 Bennett & Christenson 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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