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Helcia sanguinea is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trichopilia sanguinolenta.
ORIGIN: This species is from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia at elevations of 600 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This species is from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia at elevations of 600 to 3000 meters and is a small to medium sized, cold to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte from wet montane forests that needs cool night temperatures, summer shade, high humidity and ample water while growing and a 3 to 4 week rest after blooming to enable the new growth to mature. The small to medium sized plant has 3 ovoid, elongated, pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by imbricate, acute, scarious sheaths that are tightly packed on a rhizome. They have a single, elongated, elliptic, coriaceous, 4 to 8 [10 to 20 cm] long, conduplicate below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that has an undulate margin. The many fragrant, long lasting, successive opening flowers occur on a single, occasionally successively 2 flowered, basal, arching to pendant, 3 1/2 [9 cm] long inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and appear in the winter and spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.7 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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