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Common Name The Toothed Lip Tolumnia

Flower Size to 1 1/4" [to 3 cm]

Found in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands at elevations of sealevel to 200 meters in dry to moist forests often near the beach as a miniature sized, fan-shaped, hot to warm growing twig epiphyte, rock face growing lithophyte or terrestrial with imbricating, distichous, narrowly linear, conduplicate, coriaceous, flexuous, acute leaves with finely serrulate margins that blooms in the spring, on an axillary, to 4'+ [to 120 cm] long, wirey, distally, laxly few flowered, racemose, apically branching inflorescence that also grows keikis after blooming or if damaged. This plants inflorescence needs a support to keep it from moving in the wind much as it damages the emerging buds and you get keikis instead of flowers. I had it for two bloomings before I saw flowers. I assume that this species grows in dense bushes and the inflorescence winds through the small branches for support.

Synonyms *Oncidium prionochilum Kraenzl. 1922

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1980 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 2 1995 photo fide; An Orchid Flora of Peurto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 photo plant only; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Bakers 2006

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