Oncidium panchrysum Lindl. 1849

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Golden Yellow Oncidium

Flower Size .6" [1.6 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Colombia on south facing slopes at elevations of 2100 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small szied, cold growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to clustered, moderately compressed, ancipitous, maroon flushed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricating, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, strap-shaped, acute, conduplicate towards the base leaf that has a basal spine that persists after leaf fall and blooms in the winter on an axillary, erect, racemose to few branched, to 12" [30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a new growth before the pseudobulb forms

Synonyms Oncidium anomalum Rchb.f. 1850; Oncidium bilamellatum Kraenzl. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as O anomalum; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium bilamellatum drawing hmm; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium anomalum drawing hmm; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1975 as O anomalum drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as O anomalum drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as O anomalum drawing ok; Orquideologia Vol 23 #2 2004 as O anomalum photo fide; ; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium alliance Baker's 2006 as O anomalum

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