Stanhopea impressa Rolfe 1898Photo courtesy of Rudolf Jenny
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Impressing Stanhopea
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
A small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments that is found in Southern Colombia and western Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations ot 500 to 2000 meters with ribbed, dark green pseudobulbs carrying a single, plicate, broadly elliptic, acute, gradually narrows below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, pendant, racemose, 13" [32.5 cm] long, few to several [3 to 9] flowered inflorescence enveloped by large, chartaceous bracts and arising on a mature pseudobulb.
Synonyms Stanhopea carchiensis hort. ex Whitten 1992; Stanhopea carchiensis Dodson 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 321 Dodson 1980
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