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Orchid Species: Oliveriana brevilabia
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oliveriana brevilabia is an orchid species identified by (C.Schweinf.) Dressler & N.H.Williams in 1970.
Genus
Oliveriana (Oli.)
Grex
brevilabia
(name currently accepted by Kew)
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(C.Schweinf.) Dressler & N.H.Williams
Year
1970
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1000 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte found low on trees or as a terrestrial with narrowly elliptic-oblong, lightly sulcate, complanate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating sheaths with the lowermost being scarious and the uppermost few being foliaceous, carrying 2 apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate-linear, acute leaves that are attenuate to the conduplicate base that blooms in the spring in cultivation in the northern Hemisphere, Colombia in later summer and fall in Peru on a erect, axillary from the basal foliaceous sheaths, paniculate, 18 to 22 [45 to 55 cm] long, several to many flowered, loosely arranged inflorescence giving rise to non-resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte found low on trees or as a terrestrial with narrowly elliptic-oblong, lightly sulcate, complanate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating sheaths with the lowermost being scarious and the uppermost few being foliaceous, carrying 2 apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate-linear, acute leaves that are attenuate to the conduplicate base that blooms in the spring in cultivation in the northern Hemisphere, Colombia in later summer and fall in Peru on a erect, axillary from the basal foliaceous sheaths, paniculate, 18 to 22 [45 to 55 cm] long, several to many flowered, loosely arranged inflorescence giving rise to non-resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
| Genus Name | Genus | Grex Name | Year | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add+ | Odontoglossum | Odm | brevilabium | 1949 | C.Schweinf. |
Most awarded/recent cultivars:
Oli. brevilabia 'Orquivalle'
(2009)
Oli. brevilabia 'José Maria'
(2008)
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