Lockhartia obtusata L.O.Williams 1941
Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Blunted Lockhartia
Flower Size
Found in Panama and Colombia in montane forest at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect to pendant stems completely enveloped by many distichous, imbricating, alternate, leatrhery, basally clasping, leathery, obliquely oblong, obtuse, entirely conduplicate leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a short, successively few flowered inflorescnec arising from near the apex of the stem.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 6 2003 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
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