Odontoglossum parviflorum (L.O.Williams) Dalström & W.E.Higgins 2018
SECTION Oncidioides SERIES Pictum Dalstrom etal 2020
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Common Name The Small Flowered Odontoglossum
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with elliptic to ovoid, laterally compressed, longitudinally grooved and ridged, ancipitous, brown spotted pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying two apical, oblong-lanceolate, thin, conduplicate and narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, slender, arching, paniculate, densely many flowered inflorescence that arises on a matured pseudobulb with many alternate branches with a decided bottle-brush look and carrying a few to several, long-lasting, faintly fragrant flowers on each branch.
Synonyms *Oncidium parviflorum L.O. Williams 1942
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Epidendra Websiteas Oncidium parviflorum ; *Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 11(1): 33, t. 1. 1942 as Oncidium parviflorum; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Oncidium parviflorum drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as Oncidium parviflorum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Oncidium parviflorum; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 as Oncidium parviflorum drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Oncidium parviflorum; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Oncidium parviflorum; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 as Oncidium parviflorum drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #4 2017 as Oncidium parviflorum photo fide; The Odontoglossum Story Dalstrom, Higgins & Deburghgraeve 2020 photo/drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Oncidium parviflorum photo hmm
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