The New Refugium Botanicum. Lycaste tricolor
Resumen
Lycaste tricolor Klotzsch ex Rchb.f. in
Ca.Mueller, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 603. 1863.
Syn.: Maxillaria tricolor Klotzsch, Allg.
Gartenzeitung 20: 186. 1852, nom. illeg.,
non Maxillaria tricolor Ruiz & Pav. 1798.
TYPE: Erroneously stated as “found in
the greenhouses of the factory-owner
Rauen in Berlin [...], flowered under the
care of the gardener Gireoud, where they
were introduced by Mr. Warszewicz from
Guatemala” (holotype, B, destroyed).
Epiphytic, caespitose, large herb forming tight clumps, up to 50 cm tall. Roots
produced from the rhizome, mostly from
the nodes supporting the stems, coarse,
flexuous, to 2.5 mm in diameter. Rhizome
short, stout, freely branching, concealed
by appressed, imbricating, brown sheaths.
Pseudobulbs ovoid, somewhat compressedancipitous, 6–8 ribbed, slightly shiny, without
apical spines after shedding the leaves, 4–8
cm long, 2.5–4.0 cm wide, apically bifoliate,
enclosed by 3–4, imbricating, foliaceous
sheaths, the leafy blades progressively
longer and wider toward the apex. Leaves
plicate, petiolate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to
subacuminate, pale green, matte, sometime
shedding at flowering, 30–60 × 6–10 cm.
Inflorescences lateral, produced from the
base of the previous year’s pseudobulb,
simultaneously to the development of
the new vegetative shoot, up to eight
simultaneously, single–flowered racemes
much shorter than the leaves; peduncle
terete, stout, erect to arcuate, 6–11 cm long,
with 3–4 membranous, acute, greenish to
brown, lax, turgid bracts, a little shorter than
the internodes, 6–9 mm long
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