Comparettia macroplectron Rchb.f & Triana 1878
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
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MID
Common Name The Large Spurred Comparettia
Flower Size 2" [4 cm]
Found in Boyaca, Meta, Cundinamarca and possibly Casanares departments of Colombia on bushes along watercourses, or fruit trees at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a small sized, pendant, cool growing epiphytic species from with very short pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 , oblong or oblong-ligulate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the mid-winter on a delicate basal, arching, 14" [35 cm] long, sometimes irregularly branched inflorescence carrying 4 to 8, medium sized flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 Drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 5 1978 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 4 1991 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #4 1999 photo fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #1 2010 photo Fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #4 2011 as C falcata Photo fide; Orchids of Tropical America an introduction and guide Meisel 2014 photos fide; Of Men and Orchids Drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #4 2017 photo fide;
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