Ornithocephalus myrticola Lindl. 1840
Plant and Inflorescence Photo by © Milan Vágner
Plants and flowers in situ Brazil Photo by © Luis Filipe Varella
Common Name The Myrtle Living Ornithocephalus [A type of tree/bush - Myrtaceae]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Bolivia and Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande Do Sul states of Brazil in cool, moist montane forests to dry savannahs and hot lowlands as a miniture to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with no pseudobulbs and the several leaves held in a flat fan-shape with fleshy, falcate, acute leaves that blooms on an axillary, pubescent, 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, densely to 15 flowered inflorescence carrying lemon-scented flowers.
Synonyms Ornithocephalus chloroleucus Rchb.f. 1855; Ornithocephalus myrtiphilus Schlechter ex Hoehne 1836; Ornithocephalus pygmaeum Reichb.f. & Warm. 1878; Ornithocephalus pygmaeus Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881; Ornithocephalus reitzii Pabst 1953; Ornithocephalus vosburghii Ruschi 1969
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as O chlorolrucas; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as O pygmaeus; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as O chloroleucus drawing ok; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Brazilian Orchids McQueen 1993; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 photo good; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 542 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing not = O longilabris; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 3 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #3 2019 photo fide;
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