Solenidium lunatum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1922
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Common Name The Moon-Shaped Solenidium
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 200 to 700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing caespitose epiphyte with ellipsoid, complanate, ancipitous pseudobulbs with several pairs of nonfoliate sheaths carrying a single, apical, oblong, acute leaf that is attenuate towards the base which blooms on a erect, loosely many flowered, to 10" [25 cm]long, racemose inflorescence, with a single, acuminate bract in the middle, that is shorter than the leaves and is arising on a mature pseudobulb occuring in the winter in nature and the summer in cultivation.
Synonyms Leochilus mattogrossensis Cogn. 1912; *Oncidium lunatum Lindl. 1838; Rodriguezia lindmanii Kraenzl. 1911; Solenidium mattogrossense (Cogn.) Schltr. 1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 589 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 188 Bennett & Christenson 1993 Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Bakers 2006; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Native Orchids Of Ecuador Vol 5 Dodson 2004
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