Orchid in Colombia - Orchid Board

Pitter · #1 08-19-2019, 05:03 PM

A friend in Colombia found this growing on his property. He also took the not so good picture. Anny ideas as to what it might be, at least genus?

Roberta · #2 08-19-2019, 05:30 PM

For the genus, I wonder if it is Galeandra. Is there a chance that you could ask your friend to also show a picture of the whole plant ?

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In fact, it looks a lot like Galeandra beyrichii: Gal beyrichii

Pitter · #3 08-19-2019, 05:37 PM

Yes it sure does! Thank you very much

Roberta · #4 08-19-2019, 05:43 PM

It is beautiful! Until I went on a cruise on the Rio Negro in Brazil two months ago, I was completely unfamiliar with the genus. There I saw a lot of Gal. devoniana. That lip shape is really distinctive for the genus.

Pitter · #5 08-19-2019, 05:48 PM

Sounds a wonderful cruise.

Roberta · #6 08-19-2019, 05:59 PM

It was fantastic - the river was at flood stage, about 10 meters, so our boat was in the canopy - at times of low water, the orchids would have been very far above, for this trip they were right in front of us. I thought of genera like Galeandra and Sobralia as terrestrial, but there they grow as epiphytes... anything terrestrial would be drowned, the river is this high for 6 months of the year or more.