Thanks Simon ( M. Wellinga)
for a detailed answer to my query about the illustration of an anguloa published in the Botanical Magazine 80: t. 4807 (1854) of which I posted a reproduction at the following addresses :
http://www.chez.com/chezviateur/Anguloaeburneaorelse.htm
http://www.chez.com/chezviateur/Anguloaeburnea-BotanicalMagazine-1854.jpg
You wrote : "the lip in the picture does not show a kink at its basal attachment, which is a diagnostic character of A. virginalis, the latter species can safely be ruled out as a possibility."
When you look at the photos published in An Annotated Checklist of the Genus Anguloa (Orchid Digest Special Publication), and compare them with the Botanical Magazine illustration [80: t. 4807 (1854)], do you see any relation with the photos of Anguloa virginalis published at the bottom of page 16 and the top of page 17 ?
- the open shape with everting petals ? (bottom of page 16, center) - the apex of the lip ? (bottom of page 16, right)
are these characters insignificant for a diagnostic ?
Now, if you compare the illustration published in the Orchid Album (1884) as Anguloa eburnea [An Annotated Checklist of the Genus Anguloa, page 17] with the illustration published in the Botanical Magazine, do you think they depict the same species ?
The photo the bottom (right) of page 17 (same reference as the latter), shows the overlapping edges of the lip of Anguloa eburnea : if you compare it to the iconotype (Botanical Magazine illustration), do you see that the edges of the lip do not overlap ?
is this an insignificant character for adiagnostic ?
Then, Oakeley in An Annotated Checklist of the Genus Anguloa (page 26 - bibliography, note 3) notes that the photo published in Orquideas nativas de Colombia, volumen 1, page 34, illustrates Anguloa eburnea and not Anguloa uniflora as indicated in the caption.
When you compare that photo to the Botanical Magazine illustration, do you see a relation between the two ?
************** This morning, I contacted Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso and he believes that the Botanical Magazine illustration probably depicts Anguloa virginalis "la ilustracisn del Botanical Magazine rotulada como Anguloa uniflora se parece mas a Anguloa virginalis que a A. eburnea."
************** Thanks also for the comment about Anguloa x rolfei : that species bloomed for me, for the first time, June 24 ; the flowers just started to turn brown.
Your comment about the pseudobulb growing on top of another pseusdobulb reminds me of a previous post by a suscriber to the OGD who experienced a similar occurence with Anguloa virignalis and your subsequent comment :
http://www.potto-webdesign.com/mailman/public/orchids/2003-July/002846.html
http://www.potto-webdesign.com/mailman/public/orchids/2003-July/002857.html
*************** Best regards,
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