Oncidium foveatum Lindl. 1855

Photo By Erica Moron de Abad © and Her Biorquidtropic Peru Lab Web Page

to LATE

Common Name The Deep Pit Oncidium

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Peru at elevations of 1600 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte on rocks and or red clay with oval to pear-shaped, lightly laterally compressed pseudobulbs almost completely enveloped by several [8+], imbricating, leafless below, leaf-bearing above sheaths and carrying a single, apical, widest near the middle and taper to the acute apex, shortly conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter to spring on an basal, erect, to 43" [to 110 cm] long, densely racemose or few branched, loosely flowered inflorescence with evenly spaced, acuminate small bracts

CAUTION! Often cited as a synonym of O auriferum, but if Erica's determination here is correct and Koniger determination of O auriferum is correct then it is not possible for O foveatum to be a synonym of O auriferum, so I leave them separate until further references become available.

Synonyms Vitekorchis foveata (Lindl.) Romowicz & Szlach.2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 141 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 photo/drawing as syn O auriferum?; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------