Comparettia speciosa Rchb.f 1878 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

Inflorescence Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another Color Form Photo by © Marc Flandre

Yellow Color Form Photo by © Paul and Ann Tuskes

Another Plant Photo by © Eric Hunt

Common Name The Beautiful Comparettia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador and northwestern Peru in very wet montane forests as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool pendant growing, twig epiphyte in the lower cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters with oblong-cylindric, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, oblong-lanceolate, petiolate, acute and minutely biloped at the apex, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the summer on a delicate, basal, erect to arching, 12" [30+ cm] or longer, sometimes irregularly branched, racemose inflorescence with up to 8 successively opening flowers that can branch and reflower if left alone and occur.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 8 1958 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 5 1966; Orchid Digest Vol 42 no 5 1978 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 417 Dodson 1982 drawing fide;AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 6 1986 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 4 1991 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #1 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #4 1999 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 7 2000 photo fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 427 Bennett 7 Christenson 1998 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide; Miniature Orchids Frownie 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #3 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #4 2011 Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #3 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #4 2017 photo fide;

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