!Dilomilis montana (Sw.) Summerh. 1961
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Common Name The Mountain Loving Dilomilis - The Parrotbeak Orchid
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Puerto Rico in wet cloud forests along ridges and roadsides at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with an erect, terete, cane-like, sometimes branched stem enveloped by persistent leaf bearing sheaths and carrying numerous, coriaceous, rigid, entire, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, gradually becoming conduplicate into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the winter through early spring on a terminal, erect, sometimes branched, 12" [30 cm] long, 3 to 17 flowered inflorescence with stiff, erect floral bracts and carrying flowers that smell of violets.
Synonyms Bletia montana (Sw.) Rchb.f. 1862; Cymbidium montanum (Sw.) Sw. 1799; Dilomilis serrata Raf. 1838; *Epidendrum montanum Sw. 1788; Octadesmia montana (Sw.) Benth. & Hook. f. 1883; Octadesmia serratifolia (Hook.) Benth. 1881; Octomeria serratifolia Hook. 1828; Tetramicra montana (Sw.) Griseb. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 121 Sw. 1788 as Epidendrum montanum;
Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 2, 6: 72 Sw. 1799 as Cymbidium montanum;
Bot. Mag. 55: t. 2823 Hook 1828 as Octomeria serratifolia;
Bot. Mag. 55: t. 2823 Hook 1828 as Octomeria serratifolia drawing fide
Fl. Tellur. 4: 43 Raf 1838 as Dilomilis serrata nom. illeg.
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 445 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia montana
Fl. Brit. W. I.: 622 Griseb 1864 as Tetramicra montana; J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 311 Benth 1881 as Octodesmia serratifolia
Gen. Pl. 3: 525 Benth. 1883 as Octadesmia montana
Flora of Jamaica 79 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen 189 Schlechter 1915 as Octadesmia montana;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Octadesmia serratifolia drawing ok;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Octadesmia serratifolia???? drawing fide;
*Taxon 10: 253 Summerh. 1961;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Octadesmia montana;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Octadesmia montana;
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing ok;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo good;
Orquideas de la Republica Dominicana Y Haiti Fernandez 2007 photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide;
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