Rodrigueziopsis eleutherosepala (Barb. Rodr.) Schltr. 1920 Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Color Variation Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Free Non-Connected Rodrigueziopsis

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

A small epiphyte from Parana' and Santa Catarina states of Brazil that occurs in humid, virgin forests at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, pale green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of, imbricating, close fitting, lower brown, upper green, sheaths all spaced well apart on a rambling, thin rhizome and carrying spreading, sickle-shaped, conduplicate into the petiole-like base leaves and blooms in the winter on a basal, arcuate, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, racemose, laxly many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb through the leaf axils

Synonyms *Rodriguezia eleutherosepala Barb. Rodr. 1881

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006

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