Stanhopea graveolens

Stanhopea graveolens is a cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in forests up to 2700 meters in elevation with ovoid-conical to rhomboidal, sulcate, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate to broadly obovate-elliptic, abruptly acute, petiolate, sulcate leaves which needs a wire basket culture as the few large, showy, fragrant, waxy flowers, which are incredibly complex, descend from the bottom of the plant on a short, pendulous, 1 to 6 flowered inflorescence with papery, spathe like bracts all occuring in the spring and early summer.