Prosthechea tigrina [Linden Ex Lindley] Higgins 1997 Vespa Complex
Photo by Patricia Harding
Common Name or Meaning The Tiger Prosthechea [refers to the spotted flowers]
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and the Guianas at elevations of 2100 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial occuring in deep forests with elongate, tall and slender, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4 lanceolate leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, few to many flowered, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long inflorescence with fleshy flowers occuring in the summer, fall and winter.
Synonyms Anacheilium tigrinum [Linden ex Lindl.] Withner & Harding 2004; Aulizeum tigrinum Lindl. ex Stein 1892; Encyclia tigrina (Linden ex Lindl.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1986; *Epidendrum tigrinum Linden Ex Lindley 1846; Hormidium tigrinum [Linden ex Lindley] Brieger 1977;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum tigrinum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 73 Schlechter 1919 as Epidendrum tigrinum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 252 Schlechter 1920 as Epidendrum tigrinum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as syn to Epidendrum vespa; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 2 1972 as Epidendrum tigrinum photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1972 as Epidendrum tigrinum; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 sa Hormidium tigrinum; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Epidendrum tigrinum drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 #7 1980 as Epidendrum tigrinum photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Prosthechea tigrina drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 # 8 2020 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as Prosthechea tigrina; *The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal 2014 as Prosthechea tigrina drawing fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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