Stanhopea lietzei (Regel) Schltr. 1926 Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids

Inflorescence

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Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website

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Common Name Lietze's Stanhopea [German Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte from the southeast Atlantic Forest of Brazil at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters in very humid and shady locations with a distinct dry season in the winter that blooms in the spring in Brazil on a pendant, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence with large, chartaceous bracts.

Synonyms Stanhopea brasiliensis hort. ex Brieger 1984; Stanhopea graveolens var. aurata Hoehne (non Ldl.) 1942; *Stanhopea graveolens var. lietzii Regel 1891; Stanhopea graveolens var. straminea Porsch 1908;

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