Coryanthes macrantha [Hooker]Hooker 1831 SUBGENUS Lamellunguis SECTION Lamellunguis SUBSECTION Lamellunguis
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Brazilian Part of Larger Coryanthes macrantha complex by Gerlach pers. comm. Eric Christenson
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Common Name The Bucket Orchid or Monkey Throat Orchid in Trinidad
Flower Size 5" [13 cm]
Found in Trinidad, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Brazil in wet lowland rain forests, is a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid, sulcate, bifoliate pseudobulbs with lanceolate, plicate, ribbed leaves with a channeled petiole which blooms on a basal, pendant, 12" [30 cm] long, bracteate, 1 to 2 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that carries a large, waxy, short lived, fragrant flower smelling strongly of mint held well below the plant and occuring in summer.
This plant is often found associated with ants but it is not the rule.
Synonyms *Gongora macrantha Hooker 1831; Panstrepis paradoxa Raf. 1836
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 9 1957 photo fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 12 3/4 1977/8; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 223 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 5 1998 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 no 7 2004 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and rasmusen 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #9 2012 photo fide; Orchideen Series C Band 74 Thiv & Worz 2012 photo fide; Orchids of French Guiana Szlatch, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmant, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranow 2012 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #3 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 photo fide; Richardiana Vol 5 Chiron & Marcal 2021 Une Orginisation infragenerique de Corynathes [Orchidaceae] Photo fide;
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