Coel. mayeriana

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Grower is Mary Lane

Located in Naples, Florida, United States


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Description: DESCRIPTION: Similar to C. pandurata yet with smaller flowers and a different, non-pandurate, deeply ruffled lip with hard, white warts, this species occurs in Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte on tree trunks or occasional terrestrial in humus at elevations of sea-level to 100 meters often near mangroves with 3.2 to 9.6 [8 to 24 cm] between each pyriform, circular in cross-section pseudobulb enveloped basally by a few imbricate sheaths and carrying 2, apical, plicate, 7 nerved, acute, gradually narrowing below into the grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an arching to pendant, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, proteranthous inflorescence with many lemon scented, simultaneously opening flowers. FLOWER SIZE: 2.8 inches [7 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Culture: Grown in spaghnum moss. Kept with catasetums. ? Cataseti. On west facing lanai.

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