Stanhopea maculosa Knowles & Westc. 1839

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids

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Common Name The Spotted Stanhopea

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found near the Southwest coast and slopes of the Sierras of Nayarit, Colioma, Sonora, Michoacan and Guerrero? states of Mexico at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte needs a distinct winter dry season to bloom, with a few, crowded, ovoid or narrower, smooth pseduobubls carrying erect, elliptic, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the stout, petiolate base leaves with blooming occuring in the late spring and summer on a pendant, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with inflated, scarious, clasping, broadly ovate bracts and similar floral bracts all carrying fragrant flowers that have a sweet scent of apricots.

Synonyms Stanhopea fregeana Rchb. f. 1855; Stanhopea marshii Rchb.f. 1855; Stanhopea schilleriana Rchb. f. 1874

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as S marshii; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as S fregeana drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 2 1963 photo/drawing as S fregeana; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985; Icones Orchidacearum 5 - 6 Orchids of Mexico Part 2 - 3 Plate 675 Hagsater & Soto 2002

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