Cochlioda rosea (Lindl.) Benth. 1881 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

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Common Name The Rose Colored Cochlioda

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador and Peru in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with an ovate, compressed, ancipitous on the margin pseudobulb enveloped basally by a few distichous sheaths witht the uppermost being foliaceous and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, strap-shaped, dark green leaf that is conduplicate towards the base and blooms at most any time of the year on a basal, from the leaf sheaths, erect, 6" [125 cm] long, several to many [20] flowered inflorescence with tubular, acuminate, inflated bracts and arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and carrying several to many [7 to 15] succesive flowers.

Synonyms Mesospinidium roseum ( Lindl. ) Rchb.f. 1844; Odontoglossum roseum Lindl. 1844; Oncidium roseum Beer 1854; Oncidium roseoides Chse & NH Wms. 2008;

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Mesospinidium roseum; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 1 1970 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 38 No 1 1974 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 2 2002 photo; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 415 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium roseoides; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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