Comparettia macroplectron Rchb.f & Triana 1877-8

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy by Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Large Spurred Comparettia

Flower Size 2" [4 cm]

A small sized, pendant, warm to cool growing epiphytic species from Boyaca, Meta, Cundinamarca and possibly Casanares Colombia on bushes along watercourses, or fruit trees at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters with very short, psuedobulbs carrying 2 to 3 , oblong or oblong-ligulate, obtuse leaves that blooms on a delicate basal, arching, 14" [35 cm] long, sometimes irregularly branched inflorescence with 4 to 8, medium sized flowers occuring in the mid-winter.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 Drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 5 1978 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 4 1991 photo; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 drawing; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007

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