Oncidium brunleesianum Rchb.f. 1878 Photo courtesy of Clive Hayman

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Common Name Brunlees' Oncidium [English Orchid Enthusiast]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Said to be a synonym of - Baptistonia echinata Barb. Rodr. 1877 but, if it is then this photo is incorrect, if anyone can shed the light on this one write. Actually after doing a bit of research I have found that there is a O echinatum Cogn and that may be how the confusion arose

Found in Brazil as a small sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte with narrowly oblong, compressed somewhat narrowing towards the apex pseduobulb carrying 2 to 3, ligulate-oblong, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, mottled with dull crimson, densly many flowered paniculate inflorescence occuring in the spring.

Synonyms Epidendrum tetrapetalum Vell. 1831; Oncidium echinatum Cogn. 1902; Oncidium vellozoanum Pabst 1957

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Baptistonia echinata; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as Baptistonia echinata

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