Anguloa

Maxillarieae subtribe Lycastinae

Caespitose terrestrials. Pseudobulbs ovoid, subtended by foliaceous bracts with the blades quickly deciduous, usually armed with spines at the apex. Leaves several, large, plicate, elliptic, acuminate, petiolate. Inflorescences basal one-flowered scapes, the bracts conspicuous. Flowers waxy, fleshy, globose. tulip-shaped. Sepals and petals free, subsimilar. Lip three-lobed, flexibly hinged to the column foot, with a central callus. Column stout, somewhat arching and club-shaped, with a long foot and wings; pollinia 4, in two tightly appressed unequal pairs, on a common linear stipe and viscidium.

Named in honor of Don Francisco de Angulo, the contemporary Director-General of Mines in Peru.

A genus of nine species and three natural hybrids from Andean South America.

Dodson, C. H. 1966. Studies in orchid pollination, the genus Anguloa. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 35(8):624-627.

Kennedy, G. C. 1978. Further notes on the genus Anguloa, confused species of the Anguloa ruckeri section. Orchid Digest 42:139-141.

Oakeley, H. F. 1991. Anguloas 1: History, culture and the red/yellow species complex. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 60(10):990-995.

Oakeley, H. F. 1991. Anguloas 2: The white-flowered species and descriptions of hybrids. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 60(11):1089-1093.

Oakeley, H. F. 1994. The genus Anguloa. Orchid Rev. 102(1199):226-232.

Oakeley, H. F. 1999. A revision of the genus Anguloa Ruiz et Pav. All Japan Orchid Soc. Orchids 38:18-38.

Oakeley, H. F. 1999. A revision of the genus Anguloa Ruiz et Pav. Orquideologia 21(2):159-213.

Oakeley, H. F. 1999. Anguloa, the species, the hybrids and a checklist of Angulolycastes. Orchid Digest 63(4): Anguloa 1-32.

Ryan, A., W. M. Whitten, M. A. T. Johnson and M. W. Chase 2000. A phylogenetic assessment of Lycaste and Anguloa (Orchidaceae: Maxillarieae). Lindleyana 15:33-45.