Rhynchostele galeottiana (A. Rich.) Soto Arenas & Salazar 1993
Photos courtesy of Weyman Bussey
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Common Name Galeotti's Rhynchostele [Belgian Botanist that visited Brazil and Mexico]
Flower Size 2 1/2 to 2 3/4" [6 to 7 cm]
Found in Mexico in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero in cool to cold cloud forests of pine and oak at altitudes up to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with dark green, brown spotted, ovate to roundish pseudobulbs enveloped in part basally by 1 to 2 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate to elliptic, acute leaf that flowers on a basal, arcuate to pendant, 2 3/4 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, racemose or paniculate, few flowered [1 to 4] inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseduobulb with a few fragrant, showy flowers occuring in the summer.
Synonyms Amparoa galeottiana (A.Rich.) Archila 2009; Cymbiglossum galeottianum (A. Rich.) Halb.1983; Lemboglossum galeottianum (A. Rich.) Halb. 1984; Odontoglossum galeottianum A. Rich. 1845; Oncidium galeottianum (A. Rich.) Beer 1854;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Odontoglossum galeottianum drawing fide; ORQUIDEA (Méx. ) 8(2) Hagsater 1982 as Odontoglossum galeottianum drawing/photo fide; ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 9(2): Halbinger 1984 as Lemboglossum galeottianum; *Orquídea (Méx.) 13(1-2): 149. Soto, Salazar y Rojas 1993; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 drawing fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006, Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1079 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #9 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #2 2015 photo fide;
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