Cattleya Myrmecophila wallisii

Myrmecophila wallisii is found in Venezuela, Colombia and Napo province of Ecuador as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with fusiform, rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying 2, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, heavily creased leaves and blooms on a terminal, racemose, 16" long, several to many flowered inflorescence arising in the spring on a mature inflorescence.

There is quite a bit of color variation in the species and they can be much browner in color than the flower.

This species is closely related to Myrmecophila lueddemaniana with the main difference is that S wallisi is from South America and S lueddemaniana is from Central America but I have seen both species and have noticed that S wallisi has a small yellow spot with a yellow hook at the apex of the lip and S lueddemaniana is has a larger, yellow, apical spot and no apical hook. From Myrmecophila undulata differs in the lip ornamentation.

This is a blooming size bareroot division orchids newly potted or mounted, about 1 to 2 years to bloom, grown from seed, limited!