
Odontoglossum deburghgraeveanum Dalstrom & Merino 2010
Another angle Column and Lip Photos by © Guido Deburghgraeve
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Common Name or Meaning Deburghgraeve's Odontoglossum [Belgian Orchid Enthusiast and Odotoglossum complex aficionado current]
Flower Size 2.5" [6.25 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1700 to 2200 meters as a small to medium szied, cool to cold growing epiphyte with caespitose, ovoid to pyriform, more or less compressed, becoming wrinkled with age, ancipitous pseudobulbs subtended basally by 4 to 5 distichous sheaths, the uppermost foliaceous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, apical, conduplicate, subpetiolate, narrowly elliptic, or ovate to obovate, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the later winter on a erect to arching, almost straight, 3 to 7 flowered, to ca 14" [35 cm] long racemose inflorescence with appressed, scale-like, acute bracts
Closely related to O harryanum, O wyattianum and O helgae but differ in the structure of the apex of the column and the base of lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankesteriana Dalstrom & Merino 9(3): 505—508. 2010.
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