Odontoglossum harryanum Rchb. f. 1886 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.


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Common Name Harry's Odontoglossum [Refers to Harry Veitch, English Orchid Gardener]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
This is a summer to fall blooming, medium sized, cool to warm growing plant with an ovoid-elliptic, sulcate, laterally compressed pseudobulb subtended by several leaf-bearing sheaths and has 2 apical, oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblong, distinctly petiolate, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms with a basal, sub-erect, to 4' [120 cm] tall, racemose, several [4 to 12] flowered inflorescence with large, fragrant, waxy, long-lasting flowers, from Colombia at elevations of 700 to 2300 meters and found at the edges of lower montane forests. Oncidium harryanum [Rchb.f] Chase & NH Wms 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 12 3/4 1977/8; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 469 Dodson 1982; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 5/461 1992 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 10 1998 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium harryanum; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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