Oncidium laeve epiphytic orchid. Native to Mexico and Central America. Found by George Ure Skinner and Karl Theodor Hartweg in Guatemala. Flowered in the garden of the Horticultural Society. Smooth-lipped odontoglossum, Odontoglossum laeve. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after a botanical illustration by Sarah Drake from Edwards’ Botanical Register, continued by John Lindley, published by James Ridgway, London, 1844.

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