They are small epiphytic plants of very moist, shady tropical rainforests in Brazil, with small egg-shaped pseudobulbs and relatively large, showy flowers.
Naming and etymology
The genus Promenaea is a reference to the Greek priestess Promeneia, who was known for her beauty.
Features
Promenaea small epiphytic plants, with thin rhizomes, small, keeled, ovoid pseudobulbs, which as they mature wrinkling, often enveloped by leaf sheaths, with the top two or three zachte, flat, oval leaves with a pointed top and a narrow base . Inflorescence a raceme with one or two large flowers on short, drooping, axillary flower stalk.
The flowers are large relative to the plant, white, yellow or dark-colored, uniform, more or less flat elliptical sepals and petals with asymmetrical base, the sepals larger and broader than the more pointed petals.
The lip is three lobed with short, narrow lateral lobes and formed a broad oval with a central midlobe callus with two transverse bulges. Gynostemium It is long and conical and bears four pollinia.
Taxonomy
The genus includes eighteen species. The type species is Promenaea stapelioides.
Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenaea
See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist
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