Odontoglossum multistellare Rchb. f. 1876 SECTION Lobulatum SERIES Astranthumm
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Common Name The Many Star Odontoglossum
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in dense, upper, montane cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 3000 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with ovate, flattened, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost being leaf-bearing and carrying 1 to 2, conduplicate, ovate to obovate to elliptic, obtuse to acute, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an axillary,arising on a mature pseudobulb, erect to arching, flexuous raceme to flexuous panicle with spreading few flowered side branches, to 6" [15 cm] long, 4 to 16" [10 to 40 cm] long overall, loosely few to several flowered inflorescence with appressed, scale-like shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying stellate flowers.
Synonyms Collare-Stuartense digitatum (C. Schweinf.) Senghas & Bockemühl 1997; Collare-Stuartense multistellare (Rchb. f.) Senghas & Bockemühl 1997; Odontoglossum digitatum C. Schweinf. 1945; Odontoglossum loxense F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Oncidium multistellare [Rchb.f] Chase & NH Wms. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 960 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as Collare-stuartense multistellare drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 5 2008 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 # 12 2008 as Oncidium digitoides AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium multistellare; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as O astranthum/digitatum photo fide; The Odontoglossum Story Dalstrom, Higgins & Deburghgraeve 2020 photo/drawing fide
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