!Rodriguezia lanceolata Ruiz and Pavon 1798 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Part sunWarm to HotMOSTLY Spring

Common Name The Small Lance-Head Rodriguezia

Flower Size about 1/2" [1.3 cm]

Found in The Leeward and Windward Islands, Trinidad, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Surinam, Guyana, Fr Guiana to Brazil as a small sized, hot to warm growing, erect, caespitose epiphyte found in wet montane forests on smaller branches in bright light at altitudes around 650 to 1500 meters with ellipsoid, compressed, glossy pseudobulbs subtended by several foliaceous bracts equal in length to the single, apical, linear-lanceolate, petiolate, acute, rigid, coriaceous, leaf that is "v" shaped in cross-section and can bloom throughout the year but mostly in the spring on an axillary, to 14" [35 cm] long, several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate, acuminate floral bracts arising on a mature pseudobulb with all the flowers on the top side of the inflorescence.

Synonyms Burlingtonia rosea hort. ex Rand 1894; Pleurothallis coccinea Hooker 1824; Rodriguezia lanceolata Lodd. ; Rodriguezia secunda HBK 1816; Rodriguezia secunda var. panamensis Schltr. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as R lanceolata; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as R secunda; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 75. Panama Schlechter 1922 as R secunda; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:106 Schlechter 1924 as R secunda; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 as R secunda; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as R secunda; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 no 4 1959 photo as R secunda; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as R secunda; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as R secunda photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970 as R secunda; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as R secunda; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 9 1979 photo; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 10 1982 photo as R secunda; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 12 1984 photo as R secunda; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 as R secunda; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 drawing; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 559 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing hmm; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 drawing; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide as R secunda

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