SECTION Coloratum Dalstrom 2020
"Pseudobulbs generally with 1 apical leaf, rarely 2, and sometimes suffused with dark green to an almost blackish hue. Flowers generally resupinate with pink, reddish purple or red [very rarely yellow] sepals and petals without contrasting colored markings, column with the lower part in the same horizontal plane at he ovary, with a distinct hood and a stigma divided by the rostellum into two separate lobes." Dalstrom, Higgins & Deburghgraeve 2020
Synonyms Cochloida Lindley 1853
Section Nominal Type species = ! = Odontoglossum roseum Lindl. 1844
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Odontoglossum Story Dalstrom, Higgins & Deburghgraeve 2020
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