Stanhopea maduroi Dodson & Dressler 1998 SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii Photo courtesy of David Banks-Australia Copyrighted ©
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Common Name Maduro's Stanhopea [Panamanian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 6" [15 cm]
A rare species found in Panama and Colombia without collection data as a medium sized, warm gowing epiphyte with oval, strongly ribbed and furrowed with age pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, coarse & Leathery, lanceoalte, plicate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a pendant, basal, to 6" [15 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence enveloped by large, inflated, triangular, acute chartacheous bracts .
Synonyms Stanhopea platyceras f.gunnii Jenny 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 12 1999 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 4 2000 photo; Caesiana 21 Stanhopea Part 1 Jenny 2003 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 photo
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