Odontoglossum cristatum Lindl. 1844

Amazing Lip Detail Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Comb-Like Odontoglossum

Flower Size about 2" [about 5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or occaisional terrestrial on steep embankments with an ovoid-elliptic, flattened, ancipitous pseudobulb subtended by several, imbricate sheaths with the uppermost being leaf-bearing and carrying 2 apical, narrowly obovate, acute leaves that gradually narrow into the conduplicate petiole and blooms on a 2' [60 cm] long, gracefully arching, often branched, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and occuring in the summer and fall.

Synonyms Oncidium cristatum Beer 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 4 1962 photo; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 950 Dodson 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 7 1996 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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