Otoglossum candelabrum (Linden ex Pérot) Jenny & Garay 2010
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website
Photo by Patricio Zucconi ©
Common Name or Meaning The Wreath-Shaped Otoglossum
Flower Size 3.5" [9 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru on steep banks in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with ovate, laterally compressed, shallowly longitudinally grooved pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several distichous, overlapping leafless and leafbearing sheaths and carrying a single, narrowly elliptical to oblong, thin, channeled above, keeled below, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an axillary, erect, stiff, to 20" [to 50 cm] long, 7 to 13 flowered inflorescence and carrying closely spaced, very showy flowers
Synonyms *Odontoglossum coronarium Lindl. 1852; Odontoglossum coronarium var. flavum Rolfe 1917; Oncidium coronarium (Lindl.) Beer 1854; Otoglossum candelabrum f. flavum (Rolfe) Jenny & Garay 2010; Otoglossum coronarium (Lindl.) Garay & Dunst. 1976; Otoglossum coronarium f. flavum (Rolfe) Christenson 2006; Otoglossum coronarium var. flavum (Rolfe) Garay & Dunst. 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Odontoglossum coronarium; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 975 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Odontogliossum coronarium; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo ok; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 3 1994 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 544 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 not = O brevifolium; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as O brevifolium photo fide; *Orquideologia Vol 27 #1 2010 photo/collection sheet
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