Rodriguezia venusta Rchb. f. 1852 Photo by Santa Barbara Orchid Estate Website
Inflorescence and plant Photo by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Lovely Rodriguezia
Flower Size about 1 1/2" [3.7 cm]
A small sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic orchid that is found at elevations of 500 too 1800 meters in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. It has narrowly ovoid to ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs subtended by several leaf-like sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, dark green leaf and blooms with very fragrant flowers that occur on an axillary, pendant, to 7" 17.5 cm] long, racemose, few flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring.
Similar to R bracteata but differs in the yellow callus of the lip among other features. See also Rodriguizea sp Brazil above
Synonyms Burlingtonia fragrans Lindl. 1837; Burlingtonia knowlesii B.S.Williams 1894; Burlingtonia venusta (Rchb. f.) Lindl. 1858; Rodriguezia fragrans (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1852; Rodriguezia venusta var ionoleuca Rchb.f 1855;
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as R venusta var ionoleuca; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo ok; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 24 #8 1960 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 #11 1960 photo fide AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 5 1964 as Burlingtonia fragrans; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1975 as R luteola drawing okish; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 9 1979 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as R flavida drawing okish; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 12 1984 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 9 1992 postage Stamp fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 as R candida photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995 drawing fide/photo good; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing okish; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 as R venusta var albaphoto fide
Rodriguezia venusta Rchb. f. 1852 var bahiense
A pink striped version occurring in NE Brazil.
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