Cultivation
Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Lycaste in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Lycaste in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).
Related
Other Lycaste 17 in the reference
Lycaste aromatica Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor De la Cruz
Lycaste consobrina Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, J Alejandro González Castillo
Lycaste cruenta Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
Lycaste deppei Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Eleazar Pérez Trujillo
Lycaste dowiana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, darmozrac
Lycaste lasioglossa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández Lycaste leucantha Orchidaceae
Lycaste macrophylla Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Yu all 18 ›Names & registers
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelopewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22commons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.
