Stanhopea grandiflora [Lodd]Lindley 1832 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Large Flowered Stanhopea

Flower Size 6" [15 cm]

This species is from Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guyana, Surinam, Brazil and Trinidad at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters and is a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oviod, ribbed pseudobulbs subtended by sheaths that become fibrous with age and carries a single, apical, plicate, elliptical, acute, petiolate leaf that blooms in the spring and fall with 1 to 2 short-lived, waxy flowers arising basally on a mature pseudobulb with a pendulous, fragrant flowered, elongate 4" [10 cm] long inflorescence subtended basally by several, imbricating, chartaceous bracts.

Synonyms *Ceratochilus grandiflorus Lodd.; *Epidendrum grandiflorum Bonpl.; Stanhopea calceolata Drapiez 1841; Stanhopea calceolata hort. ex Rchb.f. 1855; Stanhopea eburnea Lindl. 1832; Stanhopea eburnea var. gracilis hort. ex Heynhold 1846; Stanhopea eburnea var. grandiflora hort. ex Lemaire 1863; Stanhopea eburnea var. grandiflora (Lindley) Regel 1856; Stanhopea eburnea var. spectabilis Lem; Stanhopea grandiflora var. alba hort. ex Lodd. 1844; Stanhopea grandiflora var. incarnata hort. ex Loddiges 1844; Stanhopea grandiflora var. odorata hort. ex Loddiges 1844

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as S eburnea; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as S eburnea; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 as S eburnea; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Stanhopea eburnea; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 4 1984 photo as S eburnea; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 4 1984 photo

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