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Odontoglossum chaetostroma is an orchid species identified by O'Brien in 1886. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium hallii.
ORIGIN: This is a medium sized, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian epiphytic species on small trees or terrestrial in leaf litter that is found in very wet montane cloud forests at altitudes of 1200 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This is a medium sized, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian epiphytic species on small trees or terrestrial in leaf litter that is found in very wet montane cloud forests at altitudes of 1200 to 3000 meters and is a cold to cool growing orchid with clustered, oblong-ovoid to ovoid, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 4, distichous, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 1 or 2 apical, oblong-lanceolate to ligulate, acute leaves that are conduplicate below into a petiole-like stem that blooms in the spring and summer on an basal, arising from the leaf axils, erect to arcuate, to 2' [60 cm] long, racemose or rarely paniculate, few to many [4 to 20] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with large, variably colored flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: To about 4 inches [to about 10 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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