Rodriguezia leeana Rchb. f. 1883 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name Lee's Rodriguezia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1 3/8" [3.3 cm]

Found from Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador on bushes on the edges of forests or in open areas as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found at elevations of 250 to 1350 meters with strongly laterally compressed, ellipsoid, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by 2 to 3 imbricating, lower leafless upper leaf-bearing sheaths equal in length to the single apical, linear-lanceolate, conduplicate, acute leaf that is "v" shaped in cross section, and blooms in the winter on an axillary, pendulous, racemose, to 6" [15 cm] long, few [6 to 8] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb through the leaf axil.

Synonyms Burlingtonia leeana (Rchb. f.) B.S. Williams 1894

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 12 1984 photo; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo not; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007

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