Oncidium litum Rchb.f. 1883 SECTION Crispa Photo courtesy of Sylvia and Cedrics Orchid Page
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt Common Name The Seaside Oncidium
Flower Size 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm]
Found in Sao Paulo State Brazil at elevations around 1100 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly obovate, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear-elliptic leaf that blooms in the spring in situ on a 8 to 14" [20 to 35 cm] long, basal, loosely branched, few to several [3 to 8] flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Anettea × duveenii (Fowlie) Szlach. & Mytnik 2006; Brasilidium × litum (Rchb.f.) Campacci 2006; Gomesa × lita (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009; Oncidium x duveenii Fowlie 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 5 1982 photo fide as O duveenii; Orchid Digest Vol 57 No 2 1993 as O duveenii photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 2 2001 photoas O duveenii; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;
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