Oncidium pendulum [Carnevali & Cetzal-Ix] in ed. SECTION Cebolletae Photo by © W. Cetzal-Ix and Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade

Common Name The Pendent Oncidium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico at elevations of sea level to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with subspherical to broadly ovoid, red purple tinged pseudobulbs completely enveloped by 3 imbricate, eventually deciduous sheaths and carrying a single terete, thickly fleshy-coricaeous, dark green, usually purple spotted, abruptly constricted proximally, broadest at the base, gradually attenuated distally into the pungent apex, often somewhat faliform leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a single, from the base of the pseudobulb, 14 to 18" [35 to 45 cm cm] long overall, peduncle first pendent, then arched to horizontal, terete, rachis racemose to paniculate with 1 to 2 branches, 1.68 to 2" [4.5 to 5 cm] long, each branch 5 to 9 flowered, peduncle and rachis dark green, purple spotted, with 7 to 10 remotely bracted internodes, 8 to 30 flowered inflorescence with narrowly elliptic, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers.

Synonyms *Cohniella pendula Carnevali & Cetzal 2010; Trichocentrum pendulum (Carnevali & Cetzal) R.Jiménez & Solano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 137: 198 Cetzal & Carnevali 2010 as Cohniella pendula drawing fide; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade as Cohniella pendula photo fide;

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