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Orchid Species: Prosthechea vespa

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Prosthechea vespa is an orchid species identified by (Vell.) W.E.Higgins in 1998.
Genus
Prosthechea (Psh.)
Grex
vespa
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Vell.) W.E.Higgins
Year
1998
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ORIGIN: Found in the Atlantic forest of Brazil in lower montane rain forests at elevations of 15 to 1000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on larger branches and tree trunks, with a long rhizome and glabrous, white roots and cylindric or spindle shaped, laterally compressed pseudobulbs with a narrowing apex and basally enveloped with imbricating, deciduous sheaths. There are 2 to 3, oblong leaves that blooms on a terminal, 6 [15 cm] long, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence with triangular, acuminate floral bracts occurring in the Brazilian summer.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 or less inches [0.6 cm or less] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Anacheilium Ahl vespa 1981 (Vell.) Pabst
Add+ Encyclia E vespa 1971 (Vell.) Dressler
Add+ Epidendrum Epi vespa 1831 Vell.
Add+ Hormidium Horm vespa
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Psh. vespa 'TiZona' (2 awards in 2017) Psh. vespa 'Niedernhausen' (2011) Psh. vespa 'Tower Grove' (2010) Psh. vespa 'Charlie' (2005) Epi. vespa 'Canaima' (1991) Epi. vespa 'Tower Grove' (1991) E. vespa 'Isabelle' (1990) Epi. vespa 'Elise' (1974)
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