Oncidium kraenzlinianum Cogn. 1896 SECTION Paucituberculata Photo courtesy of © Americo Docha Neto and © Orchidstudium

Common Name Kraenzlin's Oncidium [German Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states of Brazil as a small sized epiphyte with oblong, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, yellow green, lanceolate, obtuse, longitudinally folded along the midvein for a distance at the slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a racemose to occasionally shortly few branched, laxly several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cyrtochilum micranthum Kraenzl. 1896; Cyrtopodium micranthum (Kraenzl.) Rolfe 1896; Grandiphyllum kraenzlinianum (Cogn.) Docha Neto 2006; Grandiphyllum micranthum (Kraenzl.) J.M.H.Shaw 2011 Orchid Species Culture, Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006;

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