Oncidium bryolophotum Rchb.f. 1871 SECTION Heterantha
Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of the The Epidendra Website
Photo by © Dennis Leandro
Inflorescence with sterile and fertile flowers
Photos by © Walter Schug
Common Name The Moss-Like Comb Oncidium
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, and Peru in lower and premontane cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ovoid to lanceolate, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a pair of leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms summer through winter on an erect, axillary, through the leaf-bearing sheath, 16" to 3'4" [40 cm to 1m] long, paniculate, inflorescence all branched, primary and secondary branches each with a single fertile flower and many sterile ones which after flowering can produce plantlets.
Certainly related to if not a synonym of Oncidium heteranthum.
Synonyms Oncidium asparagoides Kraenzl. 1922; Oncidium inops Cogn. & Rolfe m1893; Oncidium megalous Schltr. 1910; Oncidium microphyton Kraenzl. 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Epidendra Website; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 Oncidium asparagoides drawing hmm; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 drawing ok; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as O microphyton; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 82. Panama Schlechter 1922; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 66. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 150. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 258. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 1 1977 as O asparagoides; 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; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 3 Koniger 2007 photo/drawing fide; 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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