Stanhopea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Stanhopea
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Stanhopea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stanhopea
Stanhopea is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) from Central and South America. The abbreviation used in horticultural trade is Stan. The genus is named for the 4th Earl of Stanhope (Philip Henry Stanhope) (1781-1855), president of the Medico-Botanical Society of London (1829-1837). It comprises 55 species and 5 natural hybrids. These epiphytic, but occasionally terrestrial orchids can be found in damp forests from Mexico to Trinidad to NW Argentina. Their ovate pseudobulbs carry from the top one long, plicate, elliptic leaf.
Stanhopea is noted for its complex and usually fragrant flowers that are generally spectacular and short-lived. Their pendant inflorescences are noted for flowering out of the bottom of the containers in which they grow, lending themselves to culture in baskets that have enough open space for the inflorescence to push through. They are sometimes called upside-down orchids.
The majority of species are robust plants that grow readily in cultivation. For relatives of Stanhopea see Stanhopeinae and the closely related sister subtribe Coeliopsidinae.
...Stanhopea in languages:
- Czech
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Stanhopea aliceae
- Stanhopea anfracta
- Stanhopea annulata
- Stanhopea avicula
- Stanhopea candida
- Stanhopea cirrhata
- Stanhopea connata
- Stanhopea costaricensis
- Stanhopea dodsoniana
- Stanhopea ecornuta
- Stanhopea embreei
- Stanhopea frymirei
- Stanhopea gibbosa
- Stanhopea grandiflora
- Stanhopea graveolens
- Stanhopea greeri
- Stanhopea haseloffiana
- Stanhopea hernandezii
- Stanhopea insignis
- Stanhopea intermedia
- Stanhopea jenischiana
- Stanhopea lewisae
- Stanhopea lietzei
- Stanhopea maculosa
- Stanhopea martiana
- Stanhopea napoensis
- Stanhopea nicaraguensis
- Stanhopea nigripes
- Stanhopea novogaliciana
- Stanhopea oculata
- Stanhopea ospinae
- Stanhopea panamensis
- Stanhopea platyceras
- Stanhopea posadae
- Stanhopea pozoi
- Stanhopea pseudoradiosa
- Stanhopea pulla
- Stanhopea radiosa
- Stanhopea reichenbachiana
- Stanhopea ruckeri
- Stanhopea saccata
- Stanhopea shuttleworthii
- Stanhopea stevensonii
- Stanhopea tigrina
- Stanhopea tricornis
- Stanhopea wardii
- Stanhopea warszewicziana
- Stanhopea whittenii
- Stanhopea xytriophora































































































































































