{{short description|Species of plant}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Anguloa clowesii2.jpg | image_caption = ''Anguloa clowesii'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Anguloa | authority = Ruíz & Pav. | type_species = ''Anguloa uniflora'' | type_species_authority = Ruíz & Pav. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Anguloa''''', commonly known as '''tulip orchids''', is a small orchid genus closely related to ''Lycaste''. Its abbreviation in horticulture is '''Ang'''. This genus was described by José Antonio Pavón and Hipólito Ruiz López in 1798. They named it in honor of Francisco de Angulo, Director-General of Mines of Spain.<ref>Angulo, Francisco. DB~e. La Real Academia de la Historia. [https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/24974/francisco-angulo]</ref>
This genus is found on the forest floor at high elevations from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru.<ref name="tammy">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=9775 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Oakeley, Henry F. (1999) ''Anguloa'': The species, the hybrids and a checklist of Angulocastes. ''Orchid Digest'' '''63'''(4: Supplement) 1–32. [http://www.orchidoman.net/NGULOAKey.html Online version]</ref><ref>Dr. Henry F. Oakeley, 2008 : Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa: The Essential Guide</ref> ''Anguloa'' is closely related to ''Lycaste'' and ''Ida'', and can hybridize with ''Lycaste''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Oakeley |first=Henry |date=2005 |title=522. ANGULOA TOGNETTIAE: Orchidaceae |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45066090 |journal=Curtis's Botanical Magazine |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=63–70 |issn=1355-4905}}</ref>
== Description == thumb|left|A horticultural hybrid ''Anguloa'' with green flowers Tulip orchids are rather large terrestrial and sometimes epiphytic plants with fleshy pseudobulbs longer than 20 cm. The long, lanceolate and plicate leaves of a full-grown ''Anguloa'' can be more than 1 m long. Two to four leaves grow from the base of each pseudobulb. The leaves are deciduous, and are shed at the start of each new growth.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The flowers of these orchids have a strong scent of cinnamon. They are of waxy appearance and are (in wild species) either of two colors, depending on the species – greenish white, or yellow to red. A single flower per inflorescence arises from the base of each new pseudobulb. The white tulip orchids have six inflorescences per pseudobulb, the other can produce up to twelve inflorescences. The sepals have a bulbous shape, resembling a tulip; hence the common name. The lip is three-lobed. The column has four pollinia.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
=== Pollination === When touched, the lip of the flower rocks back and forth inside the cup-shaped flower as if the lip was a child in a cradle. As a result, it is sometimes known as a cradle orchid. Similarly, it has been known in Columbia as ''cuna de Venus'' (cradle of Venus). When an orchid bee pollinator lands on the opening of the flower, its weight tips the flower forwards, and the lip moves down to allow the bee inside the flower. Having moved into the flower, the change in the centre of gravity tips the flower back, flipping the lip upwards, pressing the bee against the rostellum and sticky pollinia. On a return visit, the same maneuver presses the pollinia into the flower's stigma.<ref name=":0" />
== Species == The genus is split into two sections. Section ''Guoloanga'' includes the yellow and red anguloas such as ''A. clowesii'', ''A. hohenlohii'', ''A. brevilabris'', ''A. dubia'', while section ''Euanguloa'' includes the white anguloas such as ''A. uniflora'', ''A. eburnea'', ''A. virginalis'', and ''A. tognettiae''.<ref name=":0" />
There are 13 species of tulip orchids, including 4 apparently of hybrid origin though established in the wild. Other hybrid tulip orchids are bred by horticulturalists, but do not occur in the wild. The following are currently accepted as of May 2014:<ref name="tammy" /> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Described by !! Distribution |- | ||''Anguloa'' × ''acostae'' (''A. eburnea'' × ''A. hohenlohii'')|| Oakeley|| Colombia |- |alt=|120x120px ||''Anguloa brevilabris''||Rolfe ||Colombia, Peru |- |rowspan=3 | alt=|120x120px |''Anguloa cliftonii'' |J.G.Fowler |Colombia |- |''Anguloa cliftonii'' var. ''alba'' |Oakeley |Colombia |- |''Anguloa cliftonii'' var. ''concolor'' |Oakeley |Colombia |- |rowspan=2|alt=|160x160px |''Anguloa clowesii'' |Lindl. |Venezuela and Colombia |- |''Anguloa clowesii'' var. ''flava'' |A.DC |Venezuela and Colombia |- |alt=|160x160px |''Anguloa dubia'' |Rchb.f. |Colombia and possibly Venezuela |- | |''Anguloa eburnea'' |Linden ex B.S.Williams |Colombia, Peru, Ecuador |- |rowspan=2|alt=|160x160px |''Anguloa hohenlohii'' |C.Morren |Venezuela and Colombia |- |''Anguloa hohenlohii'' var. ''macroglossa'' |(Schltr.) Oakeley |Colombia |- |frameless|120x120px |''Anguloa'' × ''rolfei'' (''A. brevilabris'' × ''A. cliftonii'') |Sander ex Rolfe |Colombia |- |alt=|160x160px |''Anguloa'' × ''ruckeri'' (''A. clowesii'' × ''A. hohenlohii'') |Lindl. |Colombia, Venezuela, Peru |- |frameless|160x160px |''Anguloa'' × ''speciosa'' (''A. tognettiae'' × ''A. virginalis'') |Linden |Venezuela, Colombia |- |alt=|213x213px |''Anguloa tognettiae'' |Oakeley |Venezuela and Colombia |- |alt=|160x160px |''Anguloa uniflora'' |Ruiz & Pav. |Peru |- |rowspan=2|alt=|160x160px |''Anguloa virginalis'' |Linden ex B.S.Williams |Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia |- |''Anguloa virginalis'' var. ''turneri'' |(B.S.Williams) Oakeley |Colombia |- |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Commons-inline|italic=1}} * {{Wikispecies-inline|Anguloa|''Anguloa''}} * [http://www.orchidoman.net/NGULOAphotogallery.htm ''Anguloa'' photo gallery]
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Category:Anguloa Category:Maxillariinae genera Category:Epiphytic orchids Category:Orchids of Bolivia Category:Orchids of Peru Category:Orchids of Ecuador Category:Orchids of Colombia Category:Orchids of Venezuela Category:Taxa named by José Antonio Pavón Jiménez Category:Taxa named by Hipólito Ruiz López