Oliveriana brevilabia (C. Schweinf.) Dressler & N.H. Williams 1970 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photos Website

Northern Hemispere Peru

Common Name or Meaning The Short Lipped Oliveriana

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1000 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte found low on the tree or terrestrial with narrowly elliptic-oblong, lightly sulcate, complanate pseudobulb enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating sheaths with the lowermost being scarious and the uppermost few being foliaceous, carrying 2 apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate-linear, acute leaves that are attenuate to the conduplicate base that blooms in the spring in cultivation and fall in Peru on a erect, axillary from the basal foliaceous sheaths, paniculate, 18 to 22" [45 to 55 cm] long, several to many flowered, loosely arranged inflorescence giving rise to non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms *Odontoglossum brevilabium C. Schweinf. 1949

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 137 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006