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Orchid Species: Stanhopea maculosa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stanhopea maculosa is an orchid species identified by Knowles & Westc. in 1840.
ORIGIN: Found near the southwest Pacific coast and slopes of the Sierras of Nayarit, Colima, Sonora, Michoacan and Guerrero states of Mexico at elevations of 1000 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm growing epiphyte needs a distinct winter dry season to bloom, with a few, crowded, ovoid or narrower, smooth pseduobubls carrying erect, elliptic, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the stout, petiolate base leaves with blooming occurring in the late spring and summer on a pendant, to 10 [to 25 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with inflated, scarious, clasping, broadly ovate bracts and similar floral bracts all carrying fragrant flowers that have a sweet scent of apricots.
FLOWER SIZE: 4 inches [10 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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