Odontoglossum epidendroides Kunth 1816 Photo by Jay Pfahl.
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name The Epidendrum-Like Odontoglossum
Flower Size 2.8" [3.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru on moss covered trees in very wet lower level cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 3100 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with ovate, laterally complanate, ancipitous pseudobulbs with age becoming rugose and ridged longitudinally and enveloped basally by 2 pairs of distichous, imbricating, lower leafless, upper leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, lanceolate, apical, acute leaves that taper below into a conduplicate petiole-like base and blooms in the late spring and summer on an axillary, erect then arching to pendulous, 12" [30 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseduobulb and may have a few short, basal branches to the raceme.
Synonyms Odontoglossum lacerum Lindl. 1838; Oncidium epidendroides (Kunth) Beer 1854;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0114 Dodson & Bennett 1989; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 11 1995 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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