Lophiaris cosymbephora (C.Morren) R.Jiménez & Carnevali 2001
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Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in Veracruz and San Luis Potosi, Mexico with small pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, narrowly elliptic, keeled ventrally leaf that blooms in the late summer and fall on an erect, to 4' [120 cm] long, erratically branched, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with successive opening flowers arising from a basal leaf sheath. The flowers are about 1" in diameter, and according to Weyman Bussey this species is a variant of Onc. luridum or Onc. carthagenense or a separate species. I have all three species and can see differences in habit, inflorescence like in this one that has a very erect spike and only becomes slightly arcuate as the large flowers open and bloom times.
Synonyms Oncidium cosymbephorum Morren 1849; Oncidium guttatum var. morrenii (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1863; Oncidium luridum var. morrenii Lindl. 1855; Trichocentrum cosymbephorum (C.Morren) R.Jiménez & Carnevali . 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium guttatum var morrenii; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as Trichocentrum cosymbephora; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Trichocentrum cosymbephora photo fide; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade photo fide;
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