Ada keiliana (Rchb. f. ex Lindl.) N.H. Williams 1972

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Timo Grather

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Common Name or Meaning Dr. Keil's Ada [German Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 6" [15 cm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela as a medium to large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with pyriform, smooth, compressed pseudobulbs subtended by several leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate, thin textured, acute, conduplicate below into an elongate, narrow, petiole-like base leaf that blooms on an axillary, erect, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, loosely few [2 to 4] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb through the axil of the leaf-bearing sheath and has papery, pale green lanceolate bracts that has showy, waxy, fragrant flowers occuring in the summer.

Synonyms Brassia cinnamomea Linden ex Lindl. 1854; Brassia havanensis Lindl. 1854; *Brassia keiliana Rchb. f. ex Lindl. 1852-3; Oncidium keilianum Rchb. f. 1864

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Brassia keiliana; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Brassia keiliana; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Brassia keiliana; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Brassia keiliana; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005