Lycaste schilleriana (Sampled Red List Index Flora of Peru)

Lycaste schilleriana

Location ²

Peru; Colombia; Ecuador; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

Habitat Type ²

Found at elevations of 1,250 – 1,800m

Description ²

A large sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte or terrestrial orchid with large, broadly cylindrical or oblong-ovoid, compressed, sulcate or rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 apical, plicate, deciduous, long petiolate, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate leaves that bloom in the spring and summer although it can be variable on a basal, erect, usually few at once, to 12" [30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and subtended by a few, large, loose, tubular sheathing bracts and with the nodding, waxy, fragrant flowers held among the leaves.