A Yellow Flower Test

In celebration of my 1,111th post, here is another mega-stumper. This time it's yellow flowers, many of them endemics, some of them weeds. I hope it proves a little easier than Lila's homework.....

Points given for Genus and species.
Super Sunny Points for odour (if present) and food uses (if edible)

And Super Duper Extra Sunny Points for explaining how the English Common Name descends from the Spanish Common Name of flower #2.

 

I'm not too hot on Ecuadorian endemics (!), but I'll go for Buddleja globosa for #5 (and strongly honey-scented), and an Oxalis species for #15 (maybe food use for the tubers . . is it O. tuberosa as in yesterday's BPOTD?).

 

15 is for sure Oxalis tuberosa.

However, #5 is not Buddleja, globulosa or otherwise. Think bigger - it's a tree.

 

Trimezia steyermarkii for #3?

 

Yup.

 

#11 Espeletia?

 

Yup - Sunny points for the species.

 

12. Cassia sp.
13. Tabebuia sp.

 

1. Masdevallia sp.?
6. Allamanda sp. ?
8. Some Brassia orchid?
16. Hm... Cactaceae?
18. some Abutilon sp. (or Hibiscus)?
20. Bidens ferulifolia?

 

Hm... 14. Syrphus ribesii??? :)))

 

1 - Masdevalia x Dracula, actually
6 - Yup
8 - Nope, not even close.
12 - Nope, but good guess - very very close, actually.
13 - Nope, but also a good guess. The flower structure is the same for this one, but it's not deciduous like Tabebuia.
14 - Ha ha, but Nope. Different family. And the flower, please?
16 - You've got the family. Genus and species are possible on this one; it's native but not endemic.
18 - Hibiscus, not Abutilon.
20 - Yup.

So as not to be confustioning, here is the key of what you've got so far.

 

5 Leucaena?
10 Sphaeralcea ?
12 Senna ?
13 Tecoma ?

 

5 - Nope. Same family, much larger genus.
10 - I think so.
12 - Yup. Species?
13 - Yup. Species?

 

Lengthening reply

 

You got 'em.

 

3 Oncidium "Dancing Lady"??

Ed

 

3's a lily, Ed - Trimezia steyermarkii! There are 5 orchids on the test, however, and only one has been named so far.

 

And here's the current answered vs. unanswered! If anybody wants to see the full flowers used, let me know once you've gotten them!

 

#7 is an Odontoglossum/Odontioda hybrid

 

#17 is a Pleurothallis (or whatever it's segregated out to these days) species.
#9 - WAG - Aeonium?

 

Yes to all three!

As far as I'm aware, #17 is still called Pleurothallis.

 

I think #7 is Specklinia tribuloides by some, Pleurothallis tribuloides by others.

 

Is #20 Coreopsis (Tickseed threadleaf)

 

Great, Eric in SF - I didn't have a species for it before, and if that's what it is then I do now!!!

#20 is not Coreopsis, it's Bidens ferulifolia.

 

#19 - Pleurothallis or Stelis, not sure which

#4 is an orchid but it's honestly too blurry for me to tell much else.