Scelochilus ottonis Klotzsch 1841 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.

Flower Closeup Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name Otto Beyrodt's Scelochilus [Director Berlin Botanic Garden 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in Venezuela and Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 980 to 2500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, short, dark green pseudobubls enveloped basally by several, disticous, imbricating acute, leafless sheaths and carrying a sinlge, apical, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, leathery, laterally compressed apically to form a acute tip and a sharply keeled dorsal side leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect to spreading, basal, racemose to 12 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb throught the axil of a basal sheath carrying flowers that do not open well

Synonyms Comparettia ottonis [Klotsch] Chase & NH Wms. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide except shape of spur; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide except shape of spur; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Comparettia ottonis

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