Oncidium phymatochilum Lindl. 1850-1 SECTION Oncidium Photo courtesy of Roman Maruska and His Digital Orchid Page
Plant and Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name Pad-Like Lip Oncidium
Flower Size to 2" [to 5 cm]
Found as a short, medium sized, warm to cool growing, erect epiphyte in Mexico?, Guatemala? and Espiritu Santo state Brazil at elevations 650 to 1300 meters with fusiform, slightly compressed, enveloped basally by several imbricating sheaths and carrying a single apical, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, dark green, speckled red basally leaf and blooms on a pendant, 3 to 6' [90 to 180 cm] long, loosely many flowered, fractiflex panicle that is pale green with crimson spots and has showy, spicely fragrant flowers with highly variable lateral sepals and occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms Miltonia phymatochila (Lindl.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase 2001; Phymatochilum brasiliense Christenson 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 1 1962 photo; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 10 2001 drawing; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Miltonia phymatochila; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 1 2006 photo as Phymatochilum brasiliense; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Miltonia phymatochila; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as Miltonia phymatochila
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