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 State of Brazil at an altitude of 900 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.

Synonyms Brasilidium crispum (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Campacci 2006; Oncidium imperatoris-maximiliani Rchb.f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drrawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 2 1980; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 2 1980 photo; 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;

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