Rhynchostele maculata (La Llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar 1824 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Todd Kennedy.
Plant and Flowers In Situ Central Mexico
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Common Name The Spotted Rhynchostele
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.5 cm]
Found in Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrerro, Mexico, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz states of Mexico and Guatemala at elevations of 1750 to 3000 meters in humid, montane, pine-oak forests on trees and rocks as a small to medium sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte with smooth, oblong, laterally compressed pseudobulbs subtended by 1 to 2 basal, foliaceous or not sheaths carrying a single [rarely 2], apical, lanceolate, apiculate, basally cuneate leaf that blooms from the fall through the spring on a basal, erect, rarely branched, to 2' [60 cm] long, several [3 to 6] flowered inflorescence arising through the leaf axil as a new growth matures with lanceolate, acuminate bracts.
Synonyms Brassia oestlundiana L.O.Williams 1951; Cymbiglossum maculatum (La Llave & Lex.) Halb. 1983; Cymbiglossum madrense (Rchb. f.) Halb. 1983; Lemboglossum maculatum (La Llave & Lex.) Halb. 1894; Odontoglossum anceps Lem. 1856; Odontoglossum lueddemannii Regel 1859; *Odontoglossum maculatum La Llave & Lex. 1824; Oncidium [Lex] maculatum Beer 1854; Rhynchostele × duvivieriana (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar 1993; Rhynchostele maculata subsp oestlundiana [L.O.Wms.] Sto Arenas & Jimenez 2008
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Odnontoglossum maculatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 drawing; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1081/2 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as R maculata ssp oestlundiana drawing fide
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