Plectrophora cultrifolia (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1904 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Another Flower Common Name The Knife-Shaped Leaf Plectrophora
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte in low tropical forests at elevations of 200-650 meters wit elliptic, complanate, ancipitous pseudobulbs subtended by a few distichous, imbricate, conduplicate sheaths with the uppermost being leafed and a single, apical, bilaterally compressed, subfalcate, tapered to an indisinct petiole, acute leaf that blooms on a short to 1" [2.5 cm], axillary, sequentially single flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate, minute floral bracts and holding the flowers below the leaves and occuring in the spring, summer and early fall.
Synonyms *Jansenia cultrifolia Barb. Rodr. 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 574 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 348 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005
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