Rodriguezia decora (Lem.) Rchb. f. 1852

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Pretty Rodriguezia

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.7 cm]

This small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte has slightly fragrant flowers and is found in Sao Paulo, Parana', Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul Brazil in cool, montane, coastal forests and savannahs at moderate elevations with well-spaced, ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a single leaf-bearing sheath and carrying a single, apical, rigid, leathery, linear-oblong, acute leaf that blooms an an axillary, arcuate-pendant, to 2' [60 cm] long, slender and flexuous, racemose to paniculate, few to several [5 to 15] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseduobulb with small, membraneous sheathing bracts occuring in the fall and winter.

Synonyms Burlingtonia amoena Planch. 1852; Burlingtonia decora Lem. 1852; Rodriguezia decora var. lactea L.C.Menezes 1995

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 10 1982 photo; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 drawing

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