Oncidium crispum Lodd. 1832 SECTION Crispa Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Another Color Variation Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

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Common Name The Curled Oncidium [refers tothe sepals and petals being wavy]

Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais, Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul States of Brazil at an altitude of 50 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with large, ovoid, strongly compressed, clustered, deeply sulcate in time pseudobulbs partially enveloped by dry scarious bracts and carrying 2 to 3 apical, large, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute above, attenuate below leaves that blooms on a erect or arching, 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, many [40 to 80] flowered, strongly branched, mottled with dull crimson, paniculate inflorescence occuring in the fall and winter.

The O crispum complex includes O praetextum, O curtum and O gravesianum,

Synonyms Anettea crispa (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Szlach. & Mytnik 2006; Anettea imperatoris-maximiliani (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Mytnik 2006; Brasilidium crispum (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Campacci 2006; Gomesa imperatoris-maximiliani (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009; Oncidium crispum var. aureum auct. 1898; Oncidium crispum var. flabellulatum Lindl. in B.Stein 1892; Oncidium crispum var. grandiflorum auct. 1870; Oncidium crispum var. limbatum Cogn. 1898; Oncidium crispum var. lionetianum Cogn. 1899; Oncidium crispum var. ochraceum Rchb.f. 1888; Oncidium crispum var. olivaceum Rchb.f. 1877; Oncidium crispum var. rodriguesii Cogn.1905; Oncidium crispum var. sublaeve Rchb.f. 1872; Oncidium imperatoris-maximiliani Rchb.f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drrawing; Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 2 1980; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 2 1980 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 as Brasilidium crispum photo fide

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