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Orchid Species: Selenipedium palmifolium
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Selenipedium palmifolium is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Rchb.f. & Warsz. in 1854.
ORIGIN: Found in Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil evergreen forests often near marshy areas at elevations of sea level to 400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Very large, hot to warm growing terrestrial found in poor acidic soil and medium shade with a terete, occasionally branching, densly and coarsely glandular-hairy stems carrying narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent below, acute leaves and blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, to 8 [to 20 cm] long, few to several successively flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, glandular-hairy floral bracts with never more than one flower at a time all occurring over several months.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 2.8 inches [5 to 7 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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