Oncidium stenoglossum (Schltr.) Dressler & N.H.Williams 1975

SECTION Stellata Photo by Bodarin and the The Epidendra Website

Part shadeCool Spring

Common Name The Slim Lipped Oncidium

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clear green, sulcate, compressed, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 pairs of imbricating, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, narrowly elliptic, strongly carinate, obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, lateral, green with red spotches, to 42" [110 cm] long, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Miltonia stenoglossa Schltr.1923; Miltonioides leucomelas subsp. acutum Bockemühl & Senghas 1988; Miltonioides pauciflora (L.O.Williams) Hamer & Garay 1985; Miltonioides stenoglossa (Schltr.) Brieger & Lückel 1983; Odontoglossum laeve var. auratum Rchb.f. 1885; Odontoglossum pauciflorum L.O.Williams 1954; Odontoglossum stenoglossum (Schltr.) L.O.Williams ex Correll 1948

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Miltonia stenoglossum; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Odontoglossum pauciflorum drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Odontoglossum stenoglossum drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Odontoglossum pauciflorum drawing ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Odontoglossum stenoglossum drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as Miltonioides leucolemelas ssp acutum; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide

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