Oncidium coloratum Königer & J.G. Weinm. 1994 SECTION Waluewa
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Common Name The Colored Oncidium
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in the foothills of the coastal mountains at elevations around 300 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly ovate, laterally compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by 1 to 2 scarious bracts and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, leathery, acute, conduplicate below into the short, narrow, petiole-like base that blooms in the fall on an axillary, slender, terete, 1.6" [4 cm] long, ascending to spreading inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying 1 to 3 small, pubescent flowers.
Synonyms Baptistonia colorata (Königer & J.G.Weinm.bis) Docha Neto 2007; Baptistonia colorata (Königer & J.G.Weinm.bis) Chiron 2008; Carria colorata [Königer & J.G. Weinm.] Castro & Lacerda 2005; Carriella colorata [Königer & J.G. Weinm.] Castro & Lacerda 2005; Gomesa colorata (Königer & J.G.Weinm.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 123 Castro 2006 as Carriella colorata drawing/photo fide; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 9 2005 as Carria colorata photo/drawing fide ; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 as Carriela colorata photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 as Carriella colorata photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 as Gomesa colorata photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #8 2017 as Gomesa colorata photo fide;
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