Odontoglossum rhynchanthum Rchb. f. 1887 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

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Common Name The Beak-Flowered Odontoglossum

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Antioquia, Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing orchid with clustered, ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally grooved pseudobulbs that taper apically and basally are partially enveloped by several distichous, imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths carrying 2, erect, linear, acute leaves that are conduplicate below into the long, narrow, petiolate base that blooms on an erect to arching, axillary, 15" [38 cm] long, to 7 flowered inflorescence arisng on a recently matured pseudobulb

Synonyms Oncidium rhynchanthum [Rchb.f] Chase & NH Wms. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 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 rhynchanthum

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