Odontoglossum blandum Rchb. f. 1870

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Common Name The Charming Odontoglossum

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at the edge of mist forests at elevations of 1000 to 3000 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial caespitose herb found in very wet, montane forests, with elliptic-pyriform, complanate, sulcate pseudbulbs subtended by several foliar sheaths with linear-lanceolate, acute, carinate mid-vein leaf with a conduplicate petiolate base that blooms on an axillary, 6 1/2 to 7" [17 to 19 cm] long, slender, terete, few flowered inflorescence with a few distant narrow bracts and minute, ovate, long acuminate floral bracts arising on a mature pseudobulb and occuring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Oncidium blandum [Rchb.f] Chase & NH Wms. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 945 Dodson 1984; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 128 Bennett & Christenson 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 8 2002 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium blandum; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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