Comparettia coccinea Lindl. 1888 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium
Another View Photo courtesy of Amerigo Docha Neto
Common Name The Brick-Red Comparettia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, and Parana' states of Brazil at elevations around 390 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oblong to spindle-shaped, slightly compressed, often red tinged pseduobubls enveloped basally by ovate to triangular sheaths in youth and carrying a single, apical, narrowly lanceolate to strap-shaped, coriaceous, oblique apically, gradually taper towards the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, 6 to 9" [15 to 22 cm] long, 5 to 15 flowered arching, occasionally branched inflorescence arises on a newly matureed pseduobulb and holds the widely spaced flower towards the apex
Synonyms Comparettia peruviana Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Picdtoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 521 Dodson 1982
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