Cochlioda noezliana (Mast. ex L. Linden) Rolfe 1891 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another View Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl ©

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

Yellow Flowered Variety Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning Noezl's Cochlioda [Swiss Oorchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size 1 to 1 4/5" [2.5 to 4.5 cm]

This small to medium sized, cold growing, epiphytic and sometimes lithophitic species with a short rhizome and ovoid, laterally compressed, rugose psuedobulbs enveloped basally by several, distichous, foliaceous sheaths and having a single, apical, elliptical leaf that is conduplicate into the petiolate basal and is found in cloud forests in Peru and Northern Bolivia at elevations of 2000 to 3500 meters and is a shade loving orchid that blooms in the fall and winter on a basal, erect to arcuate, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising trough the lateral leaf axils on a mature pseudobulb with many, widely open flowers.

Synonyms Cochlioda notzliana Rolfe 1892; Cochlioda noezliana var. superba L.Linden 1898 ; *Odontoglossum noezlianum Mast. ex L. Linden 1890

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 520 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0033 Dodson & Bennett 1989; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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