!Neodryas rhodoneura Rchb. f. 1852

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant was grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens

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Common Name The Red Nerved Neodryas

Flower Size 1/2" [7 mm]

Found in Peru and Bolivia at elevations 2000 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cold to cool growing epiphyte and lithophyte oval to ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous psedobulbs enveloped basally by 2 pairs of distichous, imbricating leafless and leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong or strap-shaped, acute leaf that is conduplicate below to form a petiolelike, deeply channeled stemwith that flowers in the through late winter on an axillary, 5 to 16" [13 to 40 cm] long, branched, many [30+] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb that opens over several weeks with sequential flowers.

Synonyms Cyrtochilum rhodoneurum (Rchb. f.) Dalström 2001; Neodryas densiflora Rchb.f. 1875; Neodryas herzogii Schltr. 1913 ;Neodryas latilabia L.B. Sm. & S.K. Harris 1937; Neodryas mandonii Rchb. f. 1878; Neodryas reniformis L.B. Sm. & S.K. Harris 1937; Neodryas sacciana L.Linden & Cogn. 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Cyrtochilum rhodoneurum (Rchb. f.) Dalström 2001

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