Odontoglossum helgae Königer 1997
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Common Name or Meaning Helga's Odontoglossum [Mrs Koniger, Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1700 meters meters as medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, distichous, imbricating, conduplicate, leafless belwo and leaf-bearing above sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, narrowly lanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into the short, narrow, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a ascending to arching, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, axillary, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with the crowded, wide-spreading, fragrant flowers held in the apical half.
Synonyms Oncidium helgae [Koniger] Chase & NH Wms. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 10 1998 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium helgae
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