Stanhopea dodsoniana

Stanhopea dodsoniana is found on the southwestern coast of Mexico in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas in wet tropical rainforests and lower motane rainforests at elevations of 150 to 950 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte elliptic, longitudinally sulcate, dark green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical erect, elliptic, plicate, gradually narrowing into the elongate channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a basal, pendant, 30 cm long, 4 flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by several, inflated, imbricate, acuminate bracts and floral bracts covering all of the ovarys and carrying large, showy, fragrant flowers.