~Oncidium disciferum Lindl. 1855 - See Oncidium viperinum Lindl. 1833 Photo © Amerigo Docha Neto and the Orchidstudium Webpage

Another Flower Photo © Miriam Valebella

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Found in Paraguay and Bolivia in xerophytic forests on trees with rough bark at elevations of 1500 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise t oan ovoid, sulcate, dark greenish maroon pseudobulb enveloped basally by distichous, evanescent, shetahs and carrying 2 apical, erect, thick, coriaceous, linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the later spring through summer on a basal, paniculate, pendent, many flowered inflorescence.

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