Cochlioda beyrodtiana Schltr. 1919

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Common Name Beyrodt's Cochioda [Orchid Gardener in Berlin Early 1900's]

Flower Size 1.2 [3 cm]

Found in Peru in cool wet, montane forests at elevations around 2100 to 2500 meters as a cool to cold growing epiphyte with closely spaced, ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a pair of distichous, imbricate, conduplicate leafless and leafbearing sheath and carrying a single, erect to spreading, apical, widest below th middle, obtuse apically, conuplicate and wedge-shaped into the short, narrow, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, to 4" [10 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through the axil of a leaf sheath and having 3 to 4 close-fitting, narrowly triangular bracts and holds the flowers towards the apex.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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