Ada pozoi Dodson & N.H. Williams 1984 Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids

Darker Color Form Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant from Eucagenera

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Common Name or Meaning Pozo's Ada [Ecuadorian discoverer of species current]

Flower Size 2 3/8" [6 cm]

Found in eastern Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2350 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, flattened, thin pseudobulbs enveloped completely by 5 to 9 leaf-bearing sheaths and 5 to 7 non foliaceous basal sheaths carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong elliptic, acute apically leaf and narrowing to a conduplicate, subpetiolate base that blooms in the spring through fall on an axillary, erect to arching, 12" [30cm] long, several [7 to 9] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Brassia pozoi (Dodson & N.H.Williams) Senghas 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Dodson 1984; Native Ecuadorian orchids vol 1 Dodson 1991