Oncidium reflexum Lindl. 1837 SECTION Oblongata Photo by © Thanh Nam Nguyen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name The Back-Bent Oncidium

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

A medium sized, Mexican, Guatemalan and El Salvadorian epiphyte found on pacific facing slopes in oaks at elevations of 800 to 2200 meters that is a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing orchid with ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, thin, leaf-lees below and leafed above sheaths and carrying 2 apical, linear-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into the short, petiole-like base leaves and blooms on an axillary, slender, straggling, 1 to 3' [30 to 90 cm] long, pale green with crimson spots, loosely branched, few to many flowered panicle occuring in the fall.

Synonyms Oncidium funereum Lindl. 1855; Oncidium macropterum A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Oncidium pelicanum Hort. Monac. ex Lindl. 1840; Oncidium suttonii Bateman ex Lindl. 1842; Oncidium uncia Rchb. f. ex Kraenzl. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 3 Knoiger 2007 photo/drawing

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