Oncidium cepula Hoffmanns. 1843 SECTION Cebolletae Photo by © W. Cetzal-Ix and Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade

O cebolleta var purum Photo by © L C Menezes

Plant collection sheet Collection sheet by © Schlechter

Common Name The Small Union Oncidium

Flower Size

Found in The Leewards, the Windwards, Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina at elevations around sealevel to 700 meters as a hot growing epiphyte that blooms in the fall

Synonyms Cohniella cepula (Hoffmanns.) Carnevali & G.A.Romero 2010; Cohniella osteniana (Schltr.) Christenson 1999; Cohniella pongratziana (Königer) Königer 2000; Cohniella wittii (Oppenheim) Senghas 2001; Lophiaris wittii (Oppenheim) Braem 1993; Oncidium cebolleta f. purum (L.C.Menezes) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat. 2004; Oncidium cebolleta var. purum L.C.Menezes 1991; Oncidium glaziovii Cogn. 1906; Oncidium ostenianum Schltr. 1925; Oncidium sepula Hoffmanns. 1843; Oncidium wittii Oppenheim 1916; Stilifolium ostenianum (Schltr.) Königer & D.Pongratz 1997; Stilifolium pongratzianum Königer 1999; Stilifolium wittii (Oppenheim) Königer & D.Pongratz 1997; Trichocentrum cepula (Hoffmanns.) J.M.H.Shaw 2012; Trichocentrum cepula f. purum (L.C.Menezes) Meneguzzo 2014; Trichocentrum ostenianum (Schltr.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2001; Trichocentrum pongratzianum (Königer) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2001; Trichocentrum wittii (Oppenheim) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as O glaziovii; Schlechteriana Vol 1 No 4 1991 as O cebolleta var purum photo fide; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade as Cohniella cepula photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 as O ostenianum collection sheet fide;

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