Tolumnia sylvestris (Lindl.) Braem 1986 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom, Sweden

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Common Name The Forest Dwelling Tolumnia

Flower Size 1"

Found in Hispanola and Cuba in clumps of grass and leaf deitrius as a small sized, fan shaped, warm to hot growing, equitant terrestrial in grass clumps with a few distichous, linear to linear-lanceolatae, falcate, carinate, acute, serrulate leaves that blooms on an erect, to 20" [50 cm] long, lateral, slender, terete, distally densely several to many flowered raceme or few branched panicle with fragrant flowers.

Synonyms *Oncidium sylvestre Lindl. 1858; Oncidium variegatum subsp. sylvestre (Lindl.) Withner 1980

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Oncidium sylvestre; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1908 as Oncidium sylvestre; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 2 1995 photo; Orchidaceae Antillaneae Nir 2000; Orchid of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo

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