Oncidium ciliatum Lindley 1833 SECTION Barbata

Flower Closeup Photo by Marcos Campacchi

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Common Name The Fine Haired Oncidium

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero, Espiritu Santo,and Sao Paulo states of Brazil in both cool moist montane forests and in swamps and marshes both coastal and inland at elevations of 100 to 700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 4-angled, waxy, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 to 2 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to spreading, shortly conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, axillary, sparsely paniculate, 12 to 24" [30 to 60 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and holding the flowers in the apical quarter.

Several reerences also add Oncidium trichodes as a synonym, I have left then apart. See O trichodes for more information.

Synonyms Alatiglossum ciliatum ( Lindl. ) Baptista 2006; Alatiglossum psyche (Schltr.) Baptista 2006; Gomesa ciliata (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009; Gomesa psyche (Schltr.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009; Oncidium bahiense (Cogn.) Schltr. 1921; Oncidium barbatum Lindl. & Paxton 1851 non Lindl.; Oncidium barbatum var. ciliatum (Lindl.) Lindl. 1855; Oncidium barbatum var. labiosum Zimm. 1934; Oncidium blossfeldianum Schltr. 1915; Oncidium ciliolatum Hoffmanns.1843; Oncidium fimbriatum Hoffmsgg. non Lindl. 1843; Oncidium micropogon var. bahiense Cogn. 1905; Oncidium psyche Schltr. 1921; Onicidium reisii Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Oncidium subciliatum Hoffmanns. 1843

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 2 2007 photo as Alatiglossum ciliatum; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 as Alatiglossum ciliatum photo fide

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