Oncidium hastilabium (Lindl.) Garay & Dunst. 1976 SECTION Stellata

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Lance-Head Lip Oncidium

Flower Size to 3" [to 7.5 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela at elevations of 750 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing, creeping epiphyte with oval, compressed, smooth, slightly sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 2 [rarely 1] oblanceolate, thin-textured, dorsally carinate, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall with a basal, from the leaf bearing sheaths, to 5' [150 cm] long, many flowered, erect to arching, panicle of successively opening, fragrant, long-lived flowers, arising from the leaf sheath of a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms *Odontoglossum hastilabium Lindl. 1846

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 5/461 1992 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 2 2001 photo; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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