The Stanhopea Pages
** The Species **
Updated 26 September 2011
© Nina Rach
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(54 different species illustrated so far; still looking for photos of 18 additional species & nat. hyb.)
- Stanhopea amoena Klotzsch 1852 [now S. wardii]
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Stanhopea anfracta Rolfe 1904 -- Panama, Perú, Ecuador, Bolivia
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Stanhopea annulata Mansfield 1938 -- Colombia, Ecuador
- Stanhopea aurea Loddiges ex Lindley 1841 [now S. wardii]
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Stanhopea avicula Dressler 1989 -- eastern Panama, South America
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Stanhopea bolivarensis Mejia & Escobar 1972 -- Colombia
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Stanhopea bucephalus Lindley 1832 [now S. oculata]-- Mexico
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Stanhopea candida Barb. Rodr. 1877 -- Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador
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Stanhopea carchiensis Dodson 1998 -- Ecuador
- Stanhopea cavendishii Lindley ex W.Baxt. [now S. tigrina]
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Stanhopea cirrhata Lindley 1850 -- Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
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Stanhopea confusa G.Gerlach & Beeche 2004 -- Costa Rica
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Stanhopea connata Klotzsch 1854 -- Colombia, Perú, Ecuador
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Stanhopea costaricensis Rchb.f. 1860 -- Costa Rica, Panama
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Stanhopea deltoidea Lemaire 1862 -- Perú
- Stanhopea devoniensis Lindley [now S. graveolens Lindley] -- Mexico, Guatemala
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Stanhopea dodsoniana Salazar & Soto Arenas 2001 -- Mexico
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Stanhopea eburnea Lindley [not accepted by Jenny; see S. grandiflora (Lodd.) Lindley 1832]
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Stanhopea ecornuta Lemaire 1846 -- Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, w. Panama
- Stanhopea elegantula Rolfe 1910 [now S. saccata]
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Stanhopea embreei Dodson 1975 -- Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, The Andes
- Stanhopea expansa P.N. Don [now S. tigrina]
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Stanhopea florida Rchb.f. 1879 -- Colombia, Perú, Ecuador
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Stanhopea x fowlieana Dodson ex Horich 1993 -- Costa Rica
- Stanhopea fregeana [now S. maculosa]
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Stanhopea frymirei Dodson 1975 -- Ecuador
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Stanhopea gibbosa Rchb.f. 1869 -- Nicaragua, Costa Rica
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Stanhopea grandiflora (Lodd.) Lindley 1832 -- Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, Surinam, Guianas, Brazil (Amazonas, Para), Ecuador, Perú
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Stanhopea graveolens Lindley 1840 -- Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras [prev. S. devoniensis]
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Stanhopea greerii Jenny 2000 -- Perú
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Stanhopea guttulata Lindley 1843 -- Costa Rica, Panama, Perú, Brazil (Espirito Santo) [now Stan oculata?]
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Stanhopea hajekii Dodson & Vásquez 200- [or Ibisch 1996?] -- Bolivia
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Stanhopea haselowiana Rchb.f. 1855 -- Perú
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Stanhopea x herrenhusana Jenny 1989 -- Colombia (Nat. Hyb., reichenbachiana x tricornis)
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Stanhopea hernandezii (Kunth) Schltr. 1918 -- Mexico, Guatemala
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Stanhopea x horichiana Jenny 1988 -- Costa Rica (Nat. Hyb., ecornuta x wardii)
- Stanhopea implicata Westcott ex Lindley [now S. saccata]
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Stanhopea impressa Rolfe 1898 -- Colombia, Ecuador
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Stanhopea inodora Loddiges ex Lindley 1870 -- Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua
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Stanhopea insignis Frost ex W. Hooker 1829 -- Ecuador, Perú, coastal Brazil (Rio de Janiero, Sao Paolo, Pernambuco, Parana, Santa Catarina & Rio do Sul) *Type Species *
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Stanhopea intermedia Klinge 1898 -- [syn. S. wardii var. flava] Mexico, Central America
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Stanhopea jenishiana Kramer ex Rchb.f. 1851 -- Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
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Stanhopea leucochila Kraenzlin -- Brazil (see insignis)
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Stanhopea x lewisae (Ames & Correll) Horich ex Jenny 1988 (1942) -- Guatemala [Nat. Hyb., ecornuta x inodora]
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Stanhopea lietzei (Regel) Schlechter 1926 -- northern Argentina, coastal Brazil (Rio de Janiero, Sao Paolo, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Parana, Santa Catarina, Rio do Sul)
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Stanhopea longipes [accepted for RHS hybrid registration]
- Stanhopea lindleyi Zuccar. 1837 [now S. oculata] -- Mexico
- Stanhopea lyncea P.N. Don [now S. tigrina]
- Stanhopea macrochila Lemaire 1859 [now S. insignis Frost ex W. Hook] -- Mexico? Perú?
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Stanhopea maculosa Knowles et Westcott 1839 -- Mexico
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Stanhopea maduroi Dodson & Dressler 1998 -- Panama [previously S. platyceras f. gunnii Jenny]
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Stanhopea manriqueii Jenny & Nauray 2004 -- Perú
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Stanhopea marizaiana Jenny 2003 -- Perú (Cusco)
- Stanhopea marshii Rchb.f. [now S. saccata]
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Stanhopea martiana Bateman ex Lindley 1840 -- Mexico
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Stanhopea moliana Rolfe 1892 -- Perú
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Stanhopea napoensis Dodson 1975 -- Ecuador
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Stanhopea naurayi Jenny 2005 -- Perú
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Stanhopea nigripes Rolfe 1894 -- Perú
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Stanhopea nigroviolacea (Morren) Beer [possibly a subsp/var. of S. tigrina] -- Mexico
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Stanhopea novogaliciana S.Rosillo de Velasco 1984-- Mexico
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Stanhopea oculata (Lodd.) Lindley 1832 -- Mexico to Brazil
- Stanhopea oculata ssp. ornatissima (Lemaire) Dodson 1967 -- Brazil [see Stan. oculata]
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Stanhopea ospinae Dodson 1967 -- Colombia
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Stanhopea panamensis N.H. Williams & W.M. Whitten 1988 -- Panama, Colombia
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Stanhopea peruviana Rolfe 1912 -- Perú
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Stanhopea platyceras Rchb.f. 1868 -- Colombia [prev. Stan. madouxiana Cogn.]
- Stanhopea posadae Jenny et Braem 2000 -- Colombia
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Stanhopea pozoi Dodson & D.E. Bennett 1989 -- Ecuador
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Stanhopea pseudoradiosa Jenny & R. González 1997 -- Mexico
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Stanhopea pulla Rchb.f. 1877 -- Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
- Stanhopea purpusii Schlecter 1916 [now S. oculata (Lodd.) Lindl.] -- Mexico
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Stanhopea quadricornis Lindley 1838 -- Guatemala, Mexico? Venezuela? ["The Spanish Main"]
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Stanhopea radiosa Lemaire 1859-1860 -- Mexico
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Stanhopea randii Rolfe 1894 -- Brazil, Venezuela, Perú (see candida)
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Stanhopea reichenbachiana Roezl ex Rchb.f. 1879 -- Colombia
- Stanhopea rodigasiana Claes ex Cogn. 1898 -- now Embreea rodigasiana (Claes ex Cogn.) Dodson 1980 -- Colombia, Ecuador
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Stanhopea ruckeri Lindley 1843 -- Mexico, Nicaragua
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Stanhopea saccata Bateman 1839 -- Mexico, W. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica
- Stanhopea schilleriana Rchb.f. 18__ -- Colombia
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Stanhopea shuttleworthii Rchb.f. 1876 -- Colombia
- Stanhopea stevensonii (Meija & Escobar) Jenny 1994 [but no longer accepted by Jenny; see Stan. graveolens Lindley]
- Stanhopea tadeasi Haager & Jenik 1984 -- Ecuador [not accepted by Jenny; see Stan. connata Klotzsch]
- Stanhopea x thienii Dodson 1980 -- Ecuador
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Stanhopea tigrina Bateman ex Lindley 1838 -- Mexico
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Stanhopea tolimensis G.Gerlach 2009 -- Colombia
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Stanhopea tricornis Lindley 1849 -- Colombia, Ecuador, Perú
- Stanhopea tricornis ssp. stenochila Dodson
- Stanhopea vasquezii Dodson 1984 -- Bolivia [now S. xytriophora Rchb.f.]
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Stanhopea velata Morren [now S. martiana] -- Mexico
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Stanhopea wardii Lodd. ex Lindley 1838 -- Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Perú
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Stanhopea warscewicziana Klotzsch 1852 -- Costa Rica
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Stanhopea whittenii Soto Arenas, Salazar & G.Gerlach 2002 -- Mexico, Guatemala, Belize
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Stanhopea xytriophora Rchb.f. 1868 -- Bolivia, Perú
Unidentified Species:
Orange stanhopea species, Fall-blooming, Colombia

Go to the List of Stanhopea Hybrids
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Detailed cultural information on most of these species is contained within
Marg and Charles Baker's
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