Oncidium leptotifolium (Cetzal & Carnevali) in ed 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

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Common Name The Leptotes-Like Leaf Oncidium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Sonora state of Mexico at elevations of sea level to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with subspherical to broadly ovoid, red purple tinged pseudobulbs completely enveloped by 3 imbricate, eventually deciduous sheaths and carrying a single terete, thickly fleshy-coricaeous, dark green, usually purple spotted, abruptly constricted proximally, braodest at the base, gradually attenuated distally into the pungent apex, often somewhat falcate leaves that blooms in the later spring on a single, from the base of the pseudobulb, 4.8 to 31.2" [12 to 78 cm] long overall, peduncle erect to arched, terete, rachis racemose to paniculate with 1 to 2 branches, 1.75 to 7.2" [3.8 to 18 cm] long, each branch 3 to 5 flowered, peduncle and rachis dark green, purple tinged, with 3 to 13 remotely bracted internodes, 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence with narrowly elliptic, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers.

Synonyms *Cohniella leptotifolia Cetzal & Carnevali 2010; Trichocentrum leptotifolium (Cetzal & Carnevali) R.Jiménez & Solano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 137: 198 Cetzal & Carnevali 2010 as Cohniella leptotifolia drawing fide; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade as Cohniella leptotifolia photo fide;

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