Lophiaris oestlundiana (L.O. Williams) Braem 1993
Flower and Inflorescence Photos by Jay Pfahl
to
LATE
and 
Common Name Oestlund's Lophiaris [Swedish Orchid Collector 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Jalisco, Michoacan and Nayarit Mexico on and near the Pacific coast in mangrove swamps, wooded roadsides and barren lava flows as a small sized, hot to warm growing, mule-eared epiphyte or occasional lithophyte on rocks at elevations of sealevel to 1300 meters with small ovoid pseudobulbs partially enveloped below by triangular, leafless sheaths carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, purplish leaf that is keeled below that blooms in the late spring and summer on an axillary, erect, 18" long, racemose, successively opening inflorescence arising from the base of a newly matured pseudobulb with only a few, waxy, long lived flowers open at a time. This racemose inflorescence can expand over time and new flowers can appear over the blooming period on the old spike.
Synonyms Oncidium luridum var. atratum Lindl ?; Oncidium oestlundianum L.O. Williams 1941; Trichocentrum oestlundianum (L.O.Williams) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Oncidum oestlundianum; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 as Oncidium oestlundianum photo fide; *Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 1/2 1993; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 ; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as Trichocentrum oestlundianum; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as Trichocentrum oestlundianum; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade photo fide;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
