Odontoglossum aspidorhinum F. Lehm. 1895 Photo by Guido Deburghgraeve ©

Aff. aspidorhinum? Anyone? Photo by Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo by Weyman Bussey, plant courtesy of Jim Hamilton of Petite Plaisance Orchids

Flower Closeup Photo by Patricia Harding

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Common Name Shield-Leather Odontoglossum

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Antioquia, Colombia in bright areas of cloud forests as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters with ovate, tapering to the apex, laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally grooved pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 4 distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 erect, apical, narrowly linear to strap-shaped, acute leaves with conduplicate below to form a long, narrow, petiole-like base that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on an axillary, 8" [20 cm] long, erect, several [9 to 15] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb carrying widely spaced flowers in the upper half.

Synonyms Oncidium aspidorhinum [F. Lehm.] Chase & NH Wms 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium aspidorhinum

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