Oncidium disciferum Lindl. 1855 SECTION Concoloria Photo © Amerigo Docha Neto and the Orchidstudium Webpage

Another Flower Photo © Miriam Valebella

LATER THROUGH

Found in Paraguay and Bolivia in xerophytic forests on trees with rough bark at elevations of 1500 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to an ovoid, sulcate, dark greenish maroon pseudobulb enveloped basally by distichous, evanescent, sheaths and carrying 2 apical, erect, thick, coriaceous, linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the later spring through summer on a basal, paniculate, pendent, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Concocidium disciferum (Lindl.) Romowicz & Szlach. 2006; Gomesa discifera (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009; Oncidium disciferum Lindl. 1855; Rhinocidium disciferum (Lindl.) Docha Neto 2007;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 565 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 photo fide;

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