Stanhopea martiana Bateman ex Lindl. 1940

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids

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Common Name The Sea Side Stanhopea

Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]

Found in Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico as a medium sized, cool to hot growing lithophyte on rocks in shaded semi-deciduous forests occuring around [750]1200 to 2100 meters in elevation with a few, clustered, ovoid, deeply rugose pseudobulbs enveloped partially below by scarious bracts that become fibrous with age and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, plicate, acuminate, erect, gradually narrows below in to the stout petiole and blooms in the late spring and summer on a pendant, often 2 flowered, to 8" + [20 cm] long inflorescence with ovate clasping bracts and narrower floral bracts and has waxy, large, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Stanhopea implicata hort. ex Lindl. 1852; Stanhopea uncinata Drapiez 1842; Stanhopea velata Morren 1847

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 2 1963 photo/drawing; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 3 2000 photo; Icones Orchidacearum 5 - 6 Orchids of Mexico Part 2 - 3 Plate 676 Hagsater & Soto 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 4 2008 photo;

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