Oncidium bicameratum Rchb.f. 1922 SECTION Oncidium Photo by © Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Two-Chamebered Oncidium [refers to the 2 superposed concavities Reichenbach saw on the tabula of the column which is a feature not visible in living material]]

Flower Size 1.2" [3cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with narrowly ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs partailly enveloped below by a apir of leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to rarely 2, apical, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms on an erect to nodding, peduncle shorter than the rachis, 3 to 8 branched, paniculate inflorescence with short branches carrying 2 to 5, faintly fragrant flowers each

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 erroneoulsy as a Syn of O baueri;

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