Oncidium cruciatum Rchb. f. 1878 SECTION Waluela
Inflorescence Photo by © Luis Felipe Varella
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Common Name The Cross-Shaped Oncidium
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Espiritu Santo, Bahia and Parana State, Brazil in shady, humid cool mountain locations at elevations of 900 to 1000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, terete psueudobulbs partially enveloped basally by 2, acute leafless sheaths and carrying 1 or 2, apical leaves that blooms on a branched, 12" [30 cm] long, many [40] flowered inflorescence arising in the spring. Often cited as a synonym of Oncidium fimbriatum Lindley non Hoffmansegg which is often erroneously sited as a synonym of Oncidium ciliatum.
Synonyms Baptistonia cruciata (Rchb.f.) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2004; Oncidium pubes var flavescens Hokr.f 1842
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 photo/drawing; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Baptistonia cruciata; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 106 Castro 2006 as Baptistonia cruciata; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002
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