Bien etrange fleur que celle-ci. Elle est toute poilue!!!! Bon je ne suis pas certaine du nom...elle devrait normalement avoir quelques appendices blancs.
Provenance: Orchidmania, juillet 2010
Fleuraison: juillet/aout 2010
Full shade, cold to cool, flower in summer
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica as a mini-miniature sized, epiphyte at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters with erect, slender, slightly compressed above ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3, shorter sheaths above the base and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a apical,lax, distichous, subflexuous, 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence that holds the successive opening, single flowers just above the leaves. Cool temperatures, shade, and high humidity as well as mounting on tree fern, and good air movement assure a happy plant.
This species has often been confused with P ornata which has white appendages on the sepal margins, but this is the species that Knowles & Westcott described as a plant 4" high, a flexuous scape and at each bend bearing a wooly and purple spotted flower. No mention of appendages or lamellae which most modern references show as P schiedei but are actually P ornata. Rchb.f in his description of P schiedei states that it is a wooly flower which would eliminate it as a candidate for what we now know as P ornata which Rchb.f described as having short ramicauls and with conspicuous, unique, clavate appendages on the sepal margins.
Full shade, cold to cool, flower in summer
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica as a mini-miniature sized, epiphyte at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters with erect, slender, slightly compressed above ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3, shorter sheaths above the base and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a apical,lax, distichous, subflexuous, 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence that holds the successive opening, single flowers just above the leaves. Cool temperatures, shade, and high humidity as well as mounting on tree fern, and good air movement assure a happy plant.
This species has often been confused with P ornata which has white appendages on the sepal margins, but this is the species that Knowles & Westcott described as a plant 4" high, a flexuous scape and at each bend bearing a wooly and purple spotted flower. No mention of appendages or lamellae which most modern references show as P schiedei but are actually P ornata. Rchb.f in his description of P schiedei states that it is a wooly flower which would eliminate it as a candidate for what we now know as P ornata which Rchb.f described as having short ramicauls and with conspicuous, unique, clavate appendages on the sepal margins.
