Odontoglossum naevium Lindl. 1850

Flower Closeup Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela in bright open areas of cloudforests at 1200 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with narrowly ovate to pear-shaped, brownish green, strongly compressed pseudsobulbs that narrow apically and are partially enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carry 2, apical, acute, lanceolate leaves that are conduplicate below into the long, narrow, petiole-like base that blooms in cultivation in the winter and spring on an axillary, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, erect then arching to pendant, to 12 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly forming growth through a leaf sheath axil with the flower raceme held to the apical half and carry fragrant flowers

Synonyms Oncidium naevium (Lindl.) Beer 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 3 1972 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007

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