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Orchid Species: Prosthechea boothiana

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Prosthechea boothiana is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins in 1998.
Genus
Prosthechea (Psh.)
Grex
boothiana
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
Year
1998
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ORIGIN: Found in Florida, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Caymans, Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in dry scrub forest and tropical deciduous forests as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte found from sea level to 1500 meters in elevation.

DESCRIPTION: Found in Florida, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Caymans, Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in dry scrub forest and tropical deciduous forests as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte found from sea level to 1500 meters in elevation with suborbicular, compressed, lustrous yellow green pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3 apical, oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, rigid leaves that are always pulled to one side that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on an apical, 2 to 10 [5 to 25 cm] long, simple inflorescence arising from a newly formed pseudobulb that is longer than the leaves and has 1 to 5, long-lived, waxy flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Diacrium Diacm bidentatum 1884 Hemsl.
Add+ Encyclia E bidentata 1993 (Hemsl.) Hágsater & Soto Arenas
Add+ Epicladium Ecl boothianum 1913 (Lindl.) Small
Add+ Epidendrum Epi boothianum 1838 Lindl.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi erythronioides 1903 Small
Add+ Hormidium Horm boothianum 1960 (Lindl.) Brieger
Add+ Encyclia E boothiana 1961 (Lindl.) Dressler
Add+ Pseudencyclia Pde boothiana 2003 (Lindl.) V.P.Castro & Chiron
Most awarded/recent cultivars: E. boothiana 'Tom's Image of Lucille' (2015) Psh. boothiana 'Memoria Sue Gross' (2012) E. boothiana 'Dayanara' (1999) E. boothiana 'Robert Haass' (1991) E. boothiana 'Kathleen' (1980) Epi. boothianum 'Peggy' (1972)
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Prostechea boothiana by Lou Lodyga. A Florida native, also found in the Caribbean and Mexico in dry scrub forest and tropical deciduous forests as a hot to warm growing miniature to small sized epiphyte. It is found from sea level to... 0
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