Ada rolandoi D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1994 Photo courtesy of Pablo Bermudez ©

Common Name Rolando's Ada

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Peru in the department of Pasco in cool wet lower montane cloudforests at elevations around 1850 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, narrowly elliptic-oblong, laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudunally grooved pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, pairs of distichous, imbricating, lower leafless, upper leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the elongate, conduplicate, narrow, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect then arching, racemose, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and holding the star-shaped flowers in the upper half.

Synonyms *Brassia rolandoi (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Senghas 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;