*Miltonia schroederiana O'Brien 1887 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name Schroeder's Miltonia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1 2/5" x 2 3/4" [3.5 x 7 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontane cloud forests as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 900 to 1400 meters with elliptic-oblong, coarsly sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by foliaceous bracts which turn papery, 1 to 2, subcoriaceous, abaxially carinate, conduplicate at the base leaves that blooms on an erect to arching, 8" [20 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb, subtended with triangular bracts with waxy flowers occuring in the spring summer and early fall. Recent studies are putting this species in Oncidium but I will leave itr here at this time.

Synonyms Miltonioides confusa (Garay) Brieger & Lückel 1983; Miltonioides schroederiana (Veitch) Lückel 1986; Odontoglossum confusum Garay 1962; Odontoglossum schroederianum Rchb. f. 1887; Oncidium schroederianum (O'Brien) Garay & Stacy 1974

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1472 Dodson 1992 as Oncidium schroederianum; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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