Lycaste macrophylla

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| image = Lycaste macrophylla (as Lycaste plana) - Edwards vol 29 (NS 6) pl 35 (1843).jpg

| genus = Lycaste

| species = macrophylla

| authority = (Poepp. & Endl.) Lindl.

| synonyms =

  • Maxillaria macrophylla Poepp. & Endl. (basionym)
  • Maxillaria phyllomega Steud.
  • Lycaste plana Lindl.
  • Lycaste filomenoi Schltr.
  • Lycaste macrophylla subsp. filomenoi (Schltr.) {{ill|Jack Archie Fowlie|es|lt=Fowlie}}
  • Lycaste macrophylla subsp. plana (Lindl.) {{ill|Jack Archie Fowlie|es|lt=Fowlie}}
  • Lycaste macrophylla var. plana (Lindl.) {{ill|Henry Francis Oakeley|es|lt=Oakeley}}

}}

Lycaste macrophylla is a species of terrestrial orchid native to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia.{{cite book |title= The New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation |last1= La Croix |first1= I. F. |last2 =Aubron |first2 = Manuel |year=2008 |publisher= Timber Press |isbn= 978-0-88192-876-1 |page= 254 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4sYMDkrbHuIC}} It is the type species of the genus Lycaste.

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