Oncidium foveatum Lindl. 1855 SECTION Photo By Erica Moron de Abad © and Her Biorquidtropic Peru Lab Web Page

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Common Name The Deep Pit Oncidium

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Peru at elevations of 1600 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte on rocks and or red clay with oval to pear-shaped, lightly laterally compressed pseudobulbs almost completely enveloped by several [8+], imbricating, leafless below, leaf-bearing above sheaths and carrying a single, apical, widest near the middle and taper to the acute apice and the short, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter to spring on an basal, erect, to 43" [to 110 cm] long, densely racemose or few branched, loosely flowered inflorescence with evenly spaced, acuminate small bracts

Often cited as a synonym of O auriferum, but if Erica's determination is correct then that its not possible so I leave them separate until further references become available.

Synonyms Vitekorchis foveata (Lindl.) Romowicz & Szlach.2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 141 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing not; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 photo/drawing as O auriferum?; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 141 Bennett & Christenson 1993

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