Cochlioda rosea (Lindl.) Benth. 1881 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name The Rose Colored Cochlioda

Flower Size 3/4" [2.1 cm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with an ovate, compressed, ancipitous on the margin pseudobulb enveloped basally by a few distichous sheaths witht the uppermost being foliaceous and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, strap-shaped, dark green leaf that is conduplicate towards the base and blooms at most any time of the year on a basal, from the leaf sheaths, erect, 6" [125 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with tubular, acuminate, inflated bracts and arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and carrying several to many [7 to 15] succesive flowers.

Synonyms Mesospinidium roseum ( Lindl. ) Rchb.f. 1844; Odontoglossum roseum Lindl. 1844; Oncidium roseum Beer 1854

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 415 Dodson 1982