Odontoglossum spectatissimum Lindl. 1852 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Spectacular Odontoglossum

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in western Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in dense upper montane cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 3200 as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ovoid, laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally rugose with age pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by 2 pairs of distichous, imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, petiolate, linear or ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on an arching, racemose or rarely paniculate, to many [to 15] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with small, ovate-cucullate, acute floral bracts and carrying large fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Odontoglossum spectatissimum var. cinctum (Rchb.f.) Bockemühl 1989; Odontoglossum triumphans Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854; Odontoglossum triumphans var. cinctum Rchb.f. in ?; Oncidium spectatissimum [Lindl.] Chase & NH Wms. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as O triumphans; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as O triumphans; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as O triumphans; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as O triumphans drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8 as O triumphans; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 967 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 11 1995 photo; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium spectatissimum

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