Oncidium leinigii Pabst 1972 SECTION Waluela Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © Photo by Americo Docha Neto and Orchidstudium

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Common Name or Meaning Leinig's Oncidium

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Bahia, Espirito Santo and Rio de Janiero and Parana' Brazil in montane rainforests at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with fusiform, elongate pseuodobulbs carrying 1 to 2, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, paniculate, erect to arching, to 12" [30 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Baptistonia leinigii (Pabst) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing good; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 111 Castro 2006 as Baptistonia leinigii drawing/photo good

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