Oncidium dasytyle Rchb. f. 1873 SECTION Concoloria Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler.

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of David Jubineau And His Bulbophyllum & Co. Website

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Common Name The Hirsute Swelling Oncidium [refers to the hairy callus]

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3 to 4 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero state Brazil at elevations around 600 to 1200 meters in the cool coastal mountain ranges with bright days and heavy evening dews as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with oval, clustered, sulcate with age, compressed pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2 apical, narrowly lanceolate, subacute, bright green leaves that are keeled that blooms on a slender, arching to pendulous, to 20" [30 to 50 cm] long, racemose or sparsly branched, few [3 to 6] flowered inflorescence with successively opening flowers occurring in the winter through summer. This species is best mounted on tree fern, warm to cool temperatures, high humidity, and heavy shade.

Synonyms Brasilidium dasytyle (Rchb.f.) F.Barros & V.T.Rodrigues 2010; Carenidium dasytyle (Rchb.f.) Baptista 2006; Concocidium dasytyle (Rchb.f.) Romowicz & Szlach. 2006; Gomesa dasytyle (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 2 1985 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 2 2001 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 as Brasilidium dasytyle photo fide

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