Remember the Stanhopea? I sent email to John Marcotte asking him if he had any information on it, and he was kind enough to forward my photos to Peter and Inge Poot, who are Stanhopea specialists and AOS judges.
This is their reply:
This plant looks a lot like S. x ruckeri, a natural hybrid between S. wardii and S. oculata. The man-made hybrid of these species is S. Ronsard. The natural hybrid is quite common in Mexico according to the literature. This plant has the shape of wardii, with oculata showing up in the spots arranged in circles and the somewhat widening gap in the apex of the hypochile.
My plant was collected in Honduras, and is probably a natural hybrid.
Here are some more pictures of my stanhopea:
Here’s a picture of a stanhopea oculata:
And here’s a picture I found on the Web of a stanhopea wardii:
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