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Orchid Species: Sudamerlycaste locusta
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Sudamerlycaste locusta is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Archila in 2002.
ORIGIN: This is a Peruvian, large sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte found along railway embankments and on limestone rocks or epiphyte with the pseudobulbs protected by leaves or grass and the flowers and leaves held in full sun around 2000 to 3000 meters in altitude.
DESCRIPTION: This is a Peruvian, large sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte found along railway embankments and on limestone rocks or epiphyte with the pseudobulbs protected by leaves or grass and the flowers and leaves held in full sun around 2000 to 3000 meters in altitude with oblong-ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, long petiolate, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring in cultivation and the fall in situ on a several at once, erect, to 7 [17.5 cm] long, inflorescence with pendant, apple scented, waxy flowers and is found in wet montane forests with a distinct drier winter.
FLOWER SIZE: To about 4 1/2 inch [to 11.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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