Monographs Details:
Authority:
Ackerman, James D. 1995. An orchid flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 73: 1-203.
Ackerman, James D. 1995. An orchid flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 73: 1-203.
Family:
Orchidaceae
Orchidaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Plants sympodial, caespitose terrestrials, lithophytes or epiphytes. Roots velamentous, villous. Stems pseudobulbous, stout, ovoid, angled. Leaves articulate, deciduous, 2 to several from apex of pseudobulb, plicate, large. Inflorescences lateral from base of pseudobulb, single-flowered. Flowers large, showy, often fragrant, resupinate. Sepals subequal, spreading, lateral sepals attached to the column foot, forming a mentum. Lip trilobed, often pubescent, bearing a variously shaped callus. Column elongate, semiterete, foot present; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, pollinia 4, hard, waxy, attached to a narrow stipe with a small viscidium. Fruit a capsule.
Genus Description - Plants sympodial, caespitose terrestrials, lithophytes or epiphytes. Roots velamentous, villous. Stems pseudobulbous, stout, ovoid, angled. Leaves articulate, deciduous, 2 to several from apex of pseudobulb, plicate, large. Inflorescences lateral from base of pseudobulb, single-flowered. Flowers large, showy, often fragrant, resupinate. Sepals subequal, spreading, lateral sepals attached to the column foot, forming a mentum. Lip trilobed, often pubescent, bearing a variously shaped callus. Column elongate, semiterete, foot present; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, pollinia 4, hard, waxy, attached to a narrow stipe with a small viscidium. Fruit a capsule.
Discussion:
Lycaste Lindley, Edward's Bot. Reg. 28: Misc. 85. 1842. Type species. Lycaste plana Lindley (= L. macrophylla Lindley) of Costa Rica. A neotropical genus of about 30 species. The generic name commemorates the beautiful daughter of Priam, last king of Troy. Special Literature. Fowlie, 1970.
Lycaste Lindley, Edward's Bot. Reg. 28: Misc. 85. 1842. Type species. Lycaste plana Lindley (= L. macrophylla Lindley) of Costa Rica. A neotropical genus of about 30 species. The generic name commemorates the beautiful daughter of Priam, last king of Troy. Special Literature. Fowlie, 1970.