Oncidium auriferum Rchb.f. 1850 SECTION Verrucituberculata

Drawing

Photo/Drawing by © Willibald Koniger

LATER EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Ear Carrying Oncidium [refers to the column's wings]

Flower Size .6 to .7" [1.5 to 1.8 cm]

Found in Merida state of Venezuela, Antioquia department of Colombia, Loja province of Ecuador and Piura department of Peru at elevations around 1600 to 2300 meters as miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, oblong-ovoid, yellowish, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several sheaths and carrying a single, erect, linear to oblong-linear, obtuse, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect to arching, slender, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, axillary, many flowered, paniculate, 3 to 6 branched, each branch 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb

Synonyms Oncidium armillare Lindl. 1855; Oncidium aurorae D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1998; Oncidium callistum Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. 1922; Oncidium oxystegium Kraenzl. 1922; Vitekorchis aurifera (Rchb.f.) J.M.H.Shaw 2011; Vitekorchis callistum (Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl.) Romowicz & Szlach. 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium oxystegium drawing good; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium callistum; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium armillare drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970 as O armillare drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1991 as O sp #3970 photo fide; Icones Orchidaceaeum Peruviarum Plate 332 and Supplemental plate Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as O callistum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = O auriferum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as O aurorae; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as O armillare; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014 as Oncidium aurorae

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