Arpophyllum gigantium

Arpophyllum gigantium

Arpophyllum gigantium is a species of orchid found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela and Jamaica, warm to cool growing epiphyte in foothill forests, at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters.
Arpophyllum giganteum Taken at Selva Negra Ecolodge, Matagalpa, Nicaragua Arpophyllum gigantium,Geotagged,Nicaragua,Winter

Appearance

It is a medium to large sized, with cylindric, unifoliate, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped by tubular, scarious bracts, with lanceolate to strap-shaped, lightly falcate leaves that blooms in the late winter through spring on a terminal, 16" [40 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb subtended by a spatheceous bract and carrying many spiralling flowers.

Naming

Synonyms
Arpophylluum cardinale Lind. & Rchb.f 1854
Arpophyllum jamaicense Schlechter 1920
Arpophyllum medium Rchb.f. 1866
Arpophyllum squarrosum R.H. Torr. ex Lubbers 1880
Arpophyllum stenostachyum Schlechter 1923

Subspecies
Arpophyllum giganteum subsp. alpinum (Lindl.) Dressler - Chiapas, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Arpophyllum giganteum subsp. giganteum - Veracruz, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Jamaica
Arpophyllum giganteum subsp. medium (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Veracruz, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Central America

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusArpophyllum
SpeciesArpophyllum gigantium
Photographed in
Nicaragua