Oncidium polycladium Rchb.f. ex Lindl. 1855

SECTION Oblongata

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Common Name The Many Branched Oncidium

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in in wet montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with subcoriaceous, linear-ligulate, oblique, subacute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect-patent, paniculate, many branched, each branch 6 to 8 flowered, 3'4" [1 meter] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-oblong, acuminate floral bracts.

Similar to and often refered to as a synonym of Oncidium baueri.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as O costaricensis; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006 as O baueri; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide

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