Fernandezia sanguinea (Lindl.) Garay & Dunst. 1972

SECTION Nasonia

Plant and Flowers Alba formPhoto by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Blood Red Fernandezia

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru at 3000 to 3400 meters in dense cloud forest as a miniature sized, cool growing, reedstem epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying alternate, elliptical, basally clasping leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, arcuate, few flowered, racemose inflorescence held close to the stem and just inside the leaves and occuring at any time of the year.

Synonyms Centropetalum sanguineum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1923; Fernandezia robusta (Schltr.) Senghas 1995; Nasonia robusta Schltr. 1921; *Nasonia sanguinea Lindl. 1846

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Centropetalum sanguineum; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 COS 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;