Oncidium hians Lindl. 1838 SECTION Pulvinata

Plant

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Common Name The Gaping Oncidium [refers to the large teeth of the callus]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found In SE Brazil and maybe Peru at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with slightly compressed, round pseudobulbs, partially enveloped by 2 to 3, basal, dry, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, leathery, oblong to linear-oblong, keeled dorsally, shortly conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms on a basal, slender, erect, simple to few branched, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with well spaced flowersthat blooms in the fall

Synonyms Oncidium leucostomum Hoffmanns. ex Lindl. 1855; Oncidium maxilligerum Lem. 1856; Oncidium quadricorne Klotzsch 1852;

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002

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