Oeonia rosea Ridl. 1885
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids
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Common Name The Pink Oeonia
Flower Size 1" + [2.5 cm]
Found in Madagascar on branches in moss forests from altitudes of 500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, monopodial epiphytic species with a pendant to climbing, occassionally branching, thin stems carrying many distant, oval-oblong to elliptical, basally clasping, rounded and subcordate apically leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on an erect, racemose, 5" [12.5 cm] long, several [3 to 7] flowered inflorescence that is longer than the leaves.
Best grown in baskets while given high humidity, low light and ample water while growing and a lessening when mature.
Synonyms Aeonia rosea Ridl. 1885; Oeonia forsysthiana Kraenzl. 1900; Oeonia oncidiiflora Kraenzl 1893
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 8 1984 as O oncidiiflora photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as O oncidiiflora drawing ok; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as O oncidiflora photo fide; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 10 1997 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; The Orchid Review Vol 127 No 1328 December 2019 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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