Macradenia multiflora (Kraenzl.) Cogn. 1904 Photo by Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Multiflowered Macradenia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

A cool to warm growing, medium sized, Brazilian epiphyte with narrowly oblong-conical, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulb carrying 2, erect-spreading, membraneous, narrowly ligulate-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, long attenuate below leaves that blooms in the summer through the autumn on a pendant, 8" [20 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers and is an evergreen species that requires even water and fertilizer year round.

Synonyms *Trichopilia multiflora Kraenzl. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006