When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.
Heliconia adflexa, Coban, Guatemala, Hotel Monja Blanca, FLAAR, by Nicholas Hellmuth
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Bibliography on Prosthechea cochleata |
Prosthechea cochleata, also known as black orchid is found in Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Leewards, Puerto Rica, Windwards, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia in dense tropical evergreen, deciduous and oak forests at altitudes up to 1900 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with smooth, ovoid to oblong-elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, imbricate, scarious sheaths with 2 to 3, apical, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below, basally clasping leaves and can bloom for 6 months starting in the spring with an apical, erect, short to 15" [to 37.5 cm], few to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with a basal sheath that has successive opening, non-fragrant to spicy scented flowers (Orchid species, n. d.). According to (IARNA, n.d.) in Guatemala, P. cochleata can be found in Ala Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, El Progreso, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jutiapa, Peten, Quetzaltenango, Quiche, Retalhuleu, San Marcos, Suchitepequez and Zacapa. In the dry forest and humid forest at altitudes between 0-1800 msnm PDF, Articles, Books on Prosthechea cochleata
Suggested webpages with photos and information on Prosthechea cochleata
www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-165818
https://queenslandorchid.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/prosthechea-cochleata-an-upside-down-dangly-and-charming-orchid/
http://elorquideario.blogspot.com/2012/10/anacheilium-cochleatum-prosthechea.html
www.orchidspecies.com/anacochleata.htm
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1001247-1
http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Prosthechea+cochleata
www.plantasyhongos.es/herbarium/htm/Prosthechea_cochleata.htm
www.cicy.mx/sitios/flora%20digital/ficha_virtual.php?especie=440 http://www.infoiarna.org.gt/orquideas/prosthechea-cochleata/ https://naturalezatropical.com/orquidea-negra-prothechea-cochleata/ https://enciclovida.mx/especies/160393-prosthechea-cochleata
Updated July, 2021 by Vivian Hurtado, FLAAR Mesoamerica. |