!Warrea warreana (Lodd. ex Lindl.) C. Schweinf. 1955

Flower Closeup Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Plant Photo courtesy of Pablo Naumann of Argentina

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Common Name Warre's Warrea [English Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]

Found from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Guianas, Paraguay and Brazil at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose terrestrial from wet montane forests, scrub and lower cloud forests in humid, shady spots, with an ovate-cylindric, tapered pseudobulb enveloped by plicate, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, ribbed leaves with the conduplicate bases imbricate and the blades progressively larger from the base upwards that blooms an an axillary, erect, stout, 2 1/2' [70 cm] long, racemose, several [4 to 10] flowered, dark purple inflorescence with tubular scarious sheaths and faintly fragrant, long-lasting, heavy-textured flowers held well above the leaves occuring in the late summer and fall.

Synonyms Aganisia tricolor (Lindl.) Bois 1885; *Maxillaria warreana Lodd. ex Lindl. 1832; Warrea speciosa Schltr. 1929; Warrea tricolor Lindl. 1843; Warrea unijugata Regel 1855;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 500 Dodson 1981; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 398 Bennett & Christenson 1995

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