Comparettia splendens Schltr. 1922 Photo by © Tuang Luong and His Terra Gallery Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of White Oak Orchids

to

Common Name The Outstanding Comparettia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Bolivia near La Paz at elevations around 750 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with closely spaced, cylindrical, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect to suberect, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed below leaf that blooms on a basal, 18" [45 cm] long, rigid, erect, paniculate inflorescence with 4" [10 cm] long branches carrying 10 to 15 flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten V Bolivia Schlechter 1922; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------