Miltonia warscewiczii Rchb.f 1856 SECTION Stellata

Color variety Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup different clone Photo courtesy of Guillermo Angulo

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Common Name Warscewicz' Miltonia [Polish Orchid Collector in South America 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

This species is also commonly known as Oncidium fuscatum. This large, hot to cool growing epiphytic orchid found from Costa Rica south to Peru, with oblong-cylindrical, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 or 2 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate to oblong, acute or rounded leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, from the basal leaf sheaths of the pseudobulb, to 2' [60 cm] long, racemose or often paniculate inflorescence that is longer than the leaves, with many, fragrant, waxy, variable in color flowers and has lanceolate-acuminate bracts. Often used in Oncidium alliance hybridizing.

Synonyms Chamaeleorchis warscewiczii (Rchb.f.) Senghas & Lückel 1997; Miltonioides warszewiczii (Rchb. f.) Brieger & Lückel 1983; Odontoglossum weltoni hort. 1870; Oncidium fuscatum Rchb.f 1863; Oncidium weltonii W.Bull ex Regel 1876

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1856; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 475 Dodson 1982 as Oncidum fuscatum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0127 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Oncidium fuscatum; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 8 2000 photo as Oncidium fuscatum; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium fuscatum; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium fuscatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidum Alliance Bakers 2006 as Oncidium fuscatum; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005 as Oncidium fuscatum

Miltonia warscewiczii Rchb.f var alba 1856 Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Howard Gunn

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo;

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