Comparettia ignea P.Ortiz 1993
Another Flower Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Fire Red Comparettia
Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]
Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations of 1400 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool, pendant growing, twig epiphyte with closely spaced pseudobulbs partially enveloped by a pair of distichous, imbricating, conduplicate sheaths and carrying a single, apical,fleshy, oblong, acute, tapering below into a very narrow conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the late winter till early spring on a newly mature pseudobulb along the axil of the sheath and has delicate basal, arching to pendant, sometimes irregularly branched inflorescence with up to 8 successively opening flowers and likes moderate sun.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide;
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