Oncidium andradeanum Dodson & Bennett 1989 SECTION Oblongata
Photos by © Charles McCartney
Photo by © Pieter Brouwer and his Orchid Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Bennett & Dodson
Common Name or Meaning Andrade's Oncidium [Ecuadorian Discoverer of Species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in montane wet forests on the western slope of the Andes at elevations of 100 to 1800 meters as a hot to cool growing epiphyte with ovate, laterally strongly compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs partially enveloped below by a few pairs of opposite, conduplicate, leafless and leafbearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an ascending to almost erect, axillary, the peduncle shorter than the rachis, paniculate, 8 to 18 very short branched, several flowered inflroescence with a single flower to each branch and carrying scentless flowers.
Similar to O peltiforme but O andradeanum differs in the finely gibbous blade of the callus ending in 5 rows of tubercules and by a rounded, variably erose, and undulate anterior end of the lip
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 120 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 3 Koniger 2007 photo/drawing fide much shorter, rounded sepals and petals ;
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