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Orchid Species: Sudamerlycaste hirtzii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Sudamerlycaste hirtzii is an orchid species identified by (Dodson) Archila in 2002.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 2200 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial on steep embankments in thick woodlands with stout, ovate, slightly compressed, very shallowly furrowed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricating leafless below and leaf-bearing above sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, apical, plicate, 3 to 5 nerved, elliptic, acute, contracted below into the channeled, elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, to 22 [55 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with several tubular bracts and a floral bract all carrying a single, nodding flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 3.2 inches [8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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