Orquídea avispa / Vespid orchid

Description:

Very long inflorescence, of about 80 cm. An epiphyte, terrestrial, or lithophyte. Rhizome segments not conspicuous. Pseudobulbs clustered, large, bimorphic, ovoid, compressed, or long atad cylindric. Leaves two to four. Flowers five to fifteen, non-resupinate, fleshy, rigid, coloring varies, greenish white to brown with dark purple spots to transversely barred markings. Lip white with pink-purple markings on thickened apex, though this is also variable. Lip unlobed, or obscurely three-lobed, shortly clawed, adnate just above middle of the column, abruptly contracted to a fleshy acute, keeled apex, disc covered by a raised, fleshy, sulcate, soft, and folded callus conforming to the under surface of the column. Column pale green, this is also variable. Ovary threewinged.

Habitat:

HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, South America, and the West Indies. Found in pine and oak forest.

Notes:

FLOWERING TIME : May and September to October. Check : http://www.epidendra.org/taxones/Prosthe...