| Prosthechea vitellina photo C. Solimbergo |
| (Encyclia vitellina) | ||
| taxonomy | described by | (Lindley) Higgins, Wesley W. |
| published in | Phytologia 82 ( 5 ) : 381 1997 ( 1998 ) | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Epidendreae | |
| subtribe | Laeliinae | |
| genus | Prostechea Knowles & Westcott 1838 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | cloud forests in Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tenejapa, Coscomatepec), Guatemala (Zacapa), |
| Honduras (Lempira) | ||
| altitude | 1600 - 2600 m (5280 - 8580 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from San Cristobal de Las Casas (Chiapas, Mexico) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Cwb, humid subtropical climate, with hot summer | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 2100 m / 6930 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in San Cristobal this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 13 h 06 m' to 10 h 54 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | 25 - 30 cm (10" - 12"), apical |
| nr flowers | 18 - 21 | |
| size | single flower 4 L 3.5 cm (1.6" L 1.4") - inflorescence 12 L 6 cm ( 4.8" L 2.4") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 120 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 60 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
