Stanhopea gibbosa Rchb. f. 1869

SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii Photos by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name The Humped Stanhopea

Flower Size 4 1/2" to 5" [9 to 10 cm]

Found as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at 500 to 1500 meters in elevation in NIcaragua, Costa Rica and Panama on shady trunks and lower branches in wet, tropical lowland rainforests that has pyriform to ovoid, strongly sulcate pseudobulbs with a single apical, coriaceous, obovate, plicate, ribbed, gradually narrows below into the elongate, petiolate base, elliptic-obovate leaf that blooms in the summer on a pendant, racemose, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, few [3] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with large, chartaceous bracts and vanilla scented flowers.

Synonyms Stanhopea carchiensis Dodson 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1868 drawing; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 3 1974 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1182 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 1/2 1993 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1592 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Caesiana 21 Stanhopea Part 1 Jenny 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo;

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