!Chondrorhyncha rosea Lindl 1846
Another Flower disected ? Photo by K Senghas and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium
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Common Name The Pink Chondrorhyncha
Flower Size 3 3/5" [8.5 cm]
Found only in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte on moss covered branches with a short, pseudobulbless stem carrying 4 to 5, clustered, oblanceolate, acute leaves that have basal sheaths and blooms in the spring on a basal, erect to spreading, slender, 2 3/8" to 3 1/4" [6 to 8 cm] long inflorescence with 3 to 4 basal, elliptical sheathing bracts carrying a single, apical flower.
Synonyms Chondrorhyncha caquetae Fowlie 1968
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Orchidaceae Lindenianae 13. 1846; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Die Orchideenfloren der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten Vol I Venezuela Schlechter 1920; Die Orchideenfloren der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten Vol II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Orch. Digest 32(5): 145. 1968 as C caquetae; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing hmm; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 517 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing not; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing hmm; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992 as Chondrorhyncha rosea photo fide; Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 photo not = C inedita; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as C caquetae; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideae pt 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2009 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing ok?;
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