Pescatoria lehmannii
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Object Details
- Description
- This medium sized orchid has fragrant flowers with a very hairy lip.
- Bloom Time (Northern Hemisphere)
- Year round; peaks in March and October
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2012-0064A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Life Form
- Epiphytic
- Bloom Characteristics
- Inflorescence is up to 6" (15 cm) long with a single, long-lived, waxy pink to purple flower striped with white. Flowers are 3.5" (8.5 cm) across.
- Fragrance
- Fragrant (strong)
- Range
- SW Colombia to Ecuador
- Habitat
- Wet, humid cloud forests in coastal mountains; 1640-4430ft (500-1350m)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Common Name
- Lehmann's Pescatoria
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Pescatoria
- Species
- lehmannii
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2012-0064A
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax714167652-3334-433c-910a-c4af704bed89
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