Oncidium deltoideum Lindl. 1837 SECTION Rostrata
Inflorescence Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation At The Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Another Angle? Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name The Delta-Like Oncidium [refers to the triangular lip]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1800 to 2100 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovate to elliptical, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, lanceolate leaves that blooms on a to 32" [80 cm] long, ascending to erect, paniculate, 5 to 8 branched, all in the apical 1/3, each branch 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum deltoideum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1917
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as Cyrtochilum deltoideum drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Baker's 2005 as Cyrtochilum deltoideum; Orchids Vol 1 Koniger 2005 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo
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