Oncidium maculatum [Lindley]Lindley 1841 SECTION Stellata Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Spotted Oncidium
Flower Size to 2" [to 5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in lower wet montane forests as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte occuring on trees in forests at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters with ovoid, clustered, strongly compressed pseudobulbs, subtended by 2 leafless sheaths, and carrying 2, apical, linear-ligulate to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter through early summer on an erect, to 3' 4" [100 cm] long, many flowered, paniculate or racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with longlasting, glossy, fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum leuchochilum Linden ex Morren 1855; Cyrtochilum maculatum Lindley 1838; Cyrtochilum grandiflorum Lodd. 1844; Odontoglossum johnsonorum L.O.Williams 1954; Odontoglossum lindleyi Gal. 1852; *Odontoglossum maculatum Lindl. 1824; Oncidium funereum La Llave & Lex 1825; Oncidium lintriculus Kraenzl. 1922; Oncidium maculatum var. donianum Rchb.f. 1855; Oncidium psittacinum Linden 1855; Oncidium sawyeri L.O. Williams 1951; Oncidium tigrinum Lindl 1855;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Oncidium maculatum var. donianum ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 147. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Odontoglossum maculatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 2 1980; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 3 1982 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1056 Dodson 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 12 1986 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 7 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo as O maculatum f album; Oncidium Vol 3 Koniger Photo/drawing fide;
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