Rossioglossum splendens (Rchb.f.) Garay & G.C.Kenn. 1976 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photos Website

Common Name The Splendid Rossioglossum

Flower Size 4 3/4 to 6 3/8" [12 to 16 cm]

Found in Nayarit and Jalisco states of SW Mexico on humid slopes and barrancas in oak, oak/pine or pine/fir forests on the pacific slope at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing orchid with round, laterally compressed psuedobulbs enveloped basally by a few leafless and leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, linear, acute, gradually narrows and becomes conduplicate towards the base leaf that bloom in the fall on an axillary, 8" [20 cm] long, racemose, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising through the axil of a leaf sheath of a newly developed pseudobulb.

Synonyms Odontoglossum insleayi var. splendens Rchb.f. 1868; Odontoglossum splendens (Rchb.f.) G.C.Kenn. & Garay 1976

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galaciana Mcvaugh Vol 16 Orchidaceae 1985; Orchid Species Culture, Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006

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