Oncidium anthocrene Rchb. f. 1877 SECTION Planilabre
Photo by Jay Pfahl
Photo by Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Flower Spring Oncidium [refers to the allusion of the inflorescence to a waterfall]
Flower Size 1.5 to 2.5" [3.8 to 6.4 cm]
Found from Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or sometimes terrestrial orchid with ovate, ribbed, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, linear-lanceolate, conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms in the winter and spring on an erect to arching, 24" to 48" [60 to 120 cm] long raceme with several short basal branches of 2 to 3 flowers each of several to many, showy, waxy, very fragrant flowers on the rest.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum anthocrene Kraenzl. 1917; Oncidium powellii Schlechter 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as Cyrtochilum anthocrene; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 86. Panama Schlechter 1922 as O powellii; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as O powellii drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as O powellii; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #6 1964 as O powellii photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as Cyrtochilum anthocrene photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 8 2000 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as O powellii; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Cyrtochilum anthocrene; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002
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