Oncidium lucasianum Rolfe 1894 SECTION Oblongata
Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Mark Chase
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Common Name Lucas' Oncidium
Flower Size 1.1" [2.9 cm]
Found in Cajamarca department of Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2950 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with ovoid, subcompressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by leafless cataphyls and carrying 2, apical, linear-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect becoming arching towards the apex, paniculate, stiff, shortly branched, to 8" [20 cm] long, several florwered inflorescence arising on a newly matured growth.
CAUTION!!! I have no way of verifying these determinations so please use with caution!!!
Synonyms Vitekorchis lucasiana (Rolfe) Romowicz & Szlach. 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo not????;
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