Odontoglossum trinasutum (Kraenzl.) Dalström & W.E.Higgins 2016

SECTION Oncidioides SERIES Chrysomorphum Dalstrom etal 2020

Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Part shade WarmCool Fall EARLYWinter

Common Name or Meaning The Three Nosed Odontoglossum [Refers to the callus of the lip]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador on the western slope of the Andes in wet montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovate, slightly laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally rugose pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, narrowing below into the elongate, conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and early winter on a basal through the leaf axil, erect, to 32" [to 80 cm] long, paniculate, several branched, each branch 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Oncidium erucatum Königer 1996; Oncidium falcicorne Kraenzl. 1922; Oncidium hapalotyle Schltr. 1921; Oncidium hapalotyle f. kalbreyerianum (Kraenzl.) Roeth 2009; Oncidium kalbreyerianum Kraenzl. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium kalbreyerianum; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium falcicorne drawing good; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Odontoglossum trinasutum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 560 Dodson 1989 as Odontoglossum trinasutum drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as O erucatum; Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Odontoglossum trinasutum photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Odontoglossum trinasutum; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004 as Odontoglossum trinasutum photo/drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium Odontoglossu Alliance Bakers 2006 as Odontoglossum trinasutum; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Odontoglossum trinasutum drawing/photo ok; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 as Odontoglossum trinasutum photo fide; The Odontoglossum Story Dalstrom, Higgins & Deburghgraeve 2020 photo/drawing fide

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