Oncidium fasciferum Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854 SECTION Oblongata Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

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

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru at elevations around 1500 to 2200 meters as medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with clustered, narrowly ovate, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3 leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2, erect, oblong-lanceolate, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect to arching, slender, to 39" [to 100 cm] long, axillary, numerously flowered, paniculate, 30 branched inflorescence carrying 4 to 8 flowers on each branch, arising on a mature pseudobulb

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 drawing good; Orchids of Peru Vol 4 Schweinfurth 1961; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004 drawing/photo; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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