Ornithophora radicans (Rchb. f.) Garay & Pabst 1951
Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl.
Front View Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
Another Clone Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Berstrom Orchids
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Common Name The Ground Rooting Ornithophora
Flower Size 1/4" [5mm to 1 cm]
Found in se and southern Brazil near the coast at elevations around 400 meters as a miniature sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte with thin, narrow, oblong-ligulate, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs subtended basally by several, distichous, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, grasslike, cuneate, linear-ligulate, acute, membraneous leaves that blooms on an arching, slender, 7" [18 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence occuring in the summer and fall with tiny fragrant flowers . Best grown on a slab of tree fern in warm to cool temperatures, moderate shade and kept moist year round except for a short dry rest after the pseudobulb has matured.
Synonyms Ornithophora quadricolor Barb. Rodr. 1881; *Sigmatostalix radicans Rchb. f. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 4 2002 photo; Orchid Species Culture, Odontoglossum/Oncidium Bakers 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 8 2007 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 2 2008 photo
