Comparettia coccinea Lindl. 1838
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Common Name The Brick-Red Comparettia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, and Parana' states of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 390 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with oblong to spindle-shaped, slightly compressed, often red tinged pseduobulbs enveloped basally by ovate to triangular sheaths in youth and carrying a single, apical, narrowly lanceolate to strap-shaped, coriaceous, oblique apically, gradually tapering towards the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, 6 to 9" [15 to 22 cm] long, 5 to 15 flowered arching, occasionally branched inflorescence that arises on a newly matured pseudobulb and holds the widely spaced flowers towards the apex
Synonyms Comparettia coccinea var. longicalcarata T.Hashim. 1986; Comparettia peruviana Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawingfide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 5 1978 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 521 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 021 Bennett & Christenson 1993 as C peruviana drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #4 1999 photo fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Picdtoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 as C coccinea collection sheet fide;
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