Ada glumacea (Lindl.) N.H. Williams 1972 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

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Common Name or Meaning The Ada with Spelts

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found from Venezuela, Colombia to Ecuador as a medium sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 1100 to 1800 meters with elliptic-pyriform, moderaltely compressed, light green pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricating lower leafless, upper leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to arching, lanceolate, thin, acute, conduplicate below into the petiole-like base leaf and blooms on an axillary, slender, terete, pale green, erect, 9" [22 cm] long, few to several [4 to 15] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb through the axil of the leaf-bearing sheath and is as long or longer than the leaf, has a few distant tubular, acute bracts and occurs in the fall and winter.

Synonyms *Brassia glumacea Lindley 1846; Brassia imbricata Lindl. 1854; Oncidium glumaceum Rchb. f. 1864; Oncidium imbricatum (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1863

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Brassia glumacea; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Brassia glumacea; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Brasiia glumacea; Orquedias Nativas de Tachira Fernandez 2003; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Ecuadorian orchids vol 1 Dodson 1991; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005