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Ornithocephalus bonplandii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1863. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Ornithocephalus gladiatus.
ORIGIN: Found from the Windwards, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a miniature, fan shaped, hot to cool growing, twig epiphyte growing on old citrus and shrubs in montane rain forests at altitudes of 15 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A miniature, fan shaped, hot to cool growing, twig epiphyte growing on old citrus and shrubs in montane rain forests at altitudes of 15 to 1800 meters and blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, axillary, to 3 [7.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with several flowers that is just longer than the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/16 inch [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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