Odontoglossum nobile Rchb. f. 1849 SECTION Auriculatum SERIES Crispum Dalstrom 2020
Photo By © Jay Pfahl
Photo courtesy of Neil Shirley
LATER EARLY 
Common Name The Grand Odontoglossum
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.5 cm]
Found in Boyaca, Santander and Norte de Santander departments of Colombia in cloudforests at elevations of 2000 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with ovoid, brown speckled, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, ligulate, acute, conduplicate below into the narrow, fairly long petiole-like base leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect or arching, occasionally branching, to 2' [60 cm] long, many [10 to 100] flowered inflorescence with sclae-like, appressed, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying stellate, faintly fragrant, variable colored, orbicular appearing flowers .
Synonyms Odontoglossum nobile var. leucoxanthum (Rchb.f.) Bockemühl 1987; Odontoglossum nobile var. veitchianum (Rchb.f.) Bockemühl 1987; Odontoglossum pescatorei Linden ex Lindl. 1852-3; Odontoglossum pescatorei var. leucoxanthum Rchb.f. in ?; Oncidium pescatorii Beer 1854; Oncidium nobile [Rchb.f] Chase & NH Wms. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as O pescatorei; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as O pescatorei; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as O nobile var leucoxanthum; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Odontoglossum pescatorei drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967 as Odontoglossum psecatorei photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 15 #1 Luer & Escobar 1981 sa O pescatorei; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 9 1996 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #1 1997 as O pescatorei photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 64 #1 2000 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orquideologia Vol 25 #1 2007 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium nobile; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #4 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #10 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 as Oncidium nobile photo fide; The Odontoglossum Story Dalstrom, Higgins & Deburghgraeve 2020 drawing/photo fide
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