Oncidium picturatum Rchb. f. 1854 SECTION Oncidium Photo By Andrea Nissen and her Orquideas del Valle Website

Common Name The Striking Oncidium

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature szied, cool to cold growing epiphyte with elliptical to broadly ovate, strongly laterally compressed, ancipitous, shiney pseudobulbs enveloped partiually below by 1 to 2 opposite pairs of non-foliaceopus sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate ,obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the short conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect to arching to nodding, peduncle as long as the rachis, paniculate, very short branchingseveral to many flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3, scentless flowers to each branch in the lower half and racemose flowers above.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as O klotzscheanum drawing fide; ; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as O klotzscheanum drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 photo/drawing fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as Cyrtochiloides ochmatochila; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 546 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Cyrtochilodes ochmatochila; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Cyrtochiloides ochmatochila

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