''Lycaste aromatica'', common name the sweet scented lycaste, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''

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Description

''Lycaste aromatica'' has ovate pseudobulbs, deciduous lanceolate leaves and erect flowered spikes about long. Flower are yellow-orange and fragrant, about wide. The flowering period extends from late spring through summer. It is a terrestrial orchid growing on mossy branches (

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Distribution

This plant is native to Central America and it is present in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

Habitat

''Lycaste aromatica'' grows on branches with moss, in damp limestone cliffs and in tropical semi-deciduous forests or warm oak forests along streams. It prefers diffused bright light in moist and cool to warm climate, at an altitude of above sea level.

Synonyms

*''Maxillaria aromatica''

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*''Lycaste aromatica'' var. ''bartleyi'' *''Lycaste aromatica'' var. ''hartleyorum'' *''Lycaste aromatica var. majus'' auct 1926 *''Lycaste aromatica var. retroflexa'' Oakeley 2001 *''Lycaste consobrina''

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1852 *''Lycaste suaveolens'' Summerh. 1931 *''Maxillaria consobrina''

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Gallery

File:Lycaste aromatica (as Maxillaria aromatica) - Edwards vol 22 pl 1871 (1836).jpg, Illustration of "Lycaste aromatica" from Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol 22 (1836) File:Orchidaceae - Lycaste aromatica.JPG, "Lycaste aromatica"

References

* Dr. Henry F. Oakeley, 2008 : ''Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa: The Essential Guide'' aromatica Orchids of Central America Orchids of Belize Orchids of El Salvador Orchids of Guatemala Orchids of Honduras Orchids of Mexico Orchids of Nicaragua Plants described in 1826 {{Cymbidieae-stub