Lophiaris carthagenensis (Sw.) Braem 1993 SECTION Plurituberculata Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Cartagena Lophiaris [Town In Colombia] - Spread Eagle Lophiaris - In Costa Rica - Orejas de burro [mules ear] - In Cuba Guataca de Burro

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil as a large sized, hot to warm growing, mule eared epiphyte at altitudes of 0 to 1500 meters in humid deciduous forests on tree trunks and large branches that has a small bract covered pseudobulb that has a single, coriaceous to fleshy, elliptic, sharply keeled abaxially leaf that is conduplicate at the base, with a basal, erect to arching, to 5' [to 150 cm] long, many laxly small flowered, panicle that has the peduncle subtended by a scarious sheath and scarious, triangular sheaths at the nodes,where it almost always along river courses in high trees or on the rocks below and needs high light and humidity, a dry rest in the winter after the bloom season which is spring and summer and grows best mounted on treefern or cork.

Synonyms Cymbidium undulatum Sw. 1799; *Epidendrum carthagenense Jacq. 1760; Lophiaris oerstedii (Rchb. f.) Dressler 2000; Oncidium carthagenense [Jacq]Swartz 1800; Oncidium carthagenense var. klotzschii Lindl. 1855; Oncidium carthagenense var. oerstedii (Rchb. f.) Lindl. 1855; Oncidium carthagenense var. sanguineum Lindl. 1855; Oncidium carthagenense var. swartzii Lindl. 1855; Oncidium guttatum var. roseum hort. ex Linden 1880; Oncidium henchmanni Lodd. ex Lindl. 1855; Oncidium huntianum Hook. 1840; Oncidium huntleyanum Beer ex Lindl. 1855; Oncidium kymatoides Kraenzel 1922; Oncidium luridum Lindl. var. henchmannii Knowles & Westc. 1840; Oncidium obsoletum A. Rich & Gal. 1855; Oncidium oerstedii Rchb.f. 1854; Oncidium oerstedii var. crispiflorum Schltr. 1922; Oncidium panduriferum Kunth 1815; Oncidium roseum Lodd. ex Lindl. 1855; Oncidium salvadorense Schltr. 1913; Oncidium sanguineum Lindley 1839; Oncidium sanguineum var roseum [Lodd.]Regel 1856; Oncidium undulatum Salisb. 1812; Trichocentrum carthagenense (Jacq.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2001;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Oncidium carthagenensis drawing fide; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 85. Panama Schlechter 1922 as O oerstedii var crispiflorum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 259. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as O oerstedii; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Oncidium carthagenense; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Oncidium carthagenense; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Oncidium carthagenense; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Orquideologia VOl 13 No 3 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 898 Dodson 1983 as Onc carthagenense; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; *Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 1/2 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1570 Atwood 1993 as O carthagenense; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997 as Oncidium carthagenense; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as Trichocentrum carthagenense; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium carthagenense; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Lophiaris carthegenense; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as Trichocentrum carthegenense; Orchids of Cuba as Trichocentrum undulatum

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