Stanhopea lietzei (Regel) Schltr. 1926 Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids
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 in the states of Minas Gerais, Espiritu Santo, Sao Paulo, Parana' and Santa Catarina at elevations of 100 to 800 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. concolor Porsch 1908; *Stanhopea graveolens var. lietzii Regel 1891; Stanhopea graveolens var. straminea Porsch 1908;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993
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