Stanhopea inodora Lodd. ex Lindl. 1845 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photos Website
Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Rod Rice and Oasis the Journal
Flower closeupPhoto courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Odorless Stanhopea [A Misnomer as it does smell]
Flower Size 4 3/4" [12 cm]
Found in Mexico, Belize and Nicaragua in wet montane forests on trees at elevations of 800 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ribbed, sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several dry sheaths and carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, gradually narrows below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf and blooms on a pendulous, several to many [to 10] flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring and summer with showy, fragrant flowers.
SynonymsStanhopea ruckeri var.speciosa Lemaire 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1870 drawing; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1183 Dodson 1984; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo;
Stanhopea inodora Rchb.f. var alba 1870
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo;
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