Rudolfiella picta (Schltr.) Hoehne 1956 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Painted Rudolfiella

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.1 cm]

Found from Colombia to Ecuador as a medium sizedm hot to warm growing epiphyte in wet tropical forests at altitudes of 200 to 500 meters with close set, ovoid, longitudianlly sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a dingle apical, erect, plicate, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually anrrowing below intothe elongate, petiolate, mottled base leaf that blooms on a lateral, to pendant, very lax, several flowered inflorescence with successive opening flowers occuring in the summer if given ample water while growing and less after flowering until new growth appears as well as moderate shade.

Synonyms Bifrenaria picta (Schltr.) C. Schweinf. 1944; *Lindleyella picta Schltr. 1924; Rudolfiella picta (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1956; Schlechterella picta (Schltr.) Hoehne 1944

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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