Rodriguezia leeana Rchb. f. 1883 Photo by © Pedro Ivo Soares Braga and The Brazilian Orchids Website

Another flower? Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name Lee's Rodriguezia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1 3/8" [3.3 cm]

Found from Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador on bushes on the edges of forests or in open areas as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found at elevations of 250 to 1350 meters with strongly laterally compressed, ellipsoid, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by 2 to 3 imbricating, lower leafless upper leaf-bearing sheaths equal in length to the single apical, linear-lanceolate, conduplicate, acute leaf that is "v" shaped in cross section, and blooms in the winter on an axillary, pendulous, racemose, to 6" [15 cm] long, few [6 to 8] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb through the leaf axil.

CAUTION I am not convinced that any of the photos presented are correct for this species, but I put them in order of probability of correctness.

Synonyms Burlingtonia leeana (Rchb. f.) B.S. Williams 1894

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing good to the first photo good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing first photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 12 1984 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela Dunsterville 1987 drawing/photo fideVenezuela, Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo good to the first photo; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good to the first photo; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo okish; Orquideologia Vol 24 #2 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;

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