Oncidium sarcodes Lindl. 1849 SECTION Waluewa
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Common Name The Fleshy Oncidium
Flower Size 1 1/2" to 2" [3.75 to 5 cm]
Found in Parana, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil in coastal rainforests at elevations around 50 to 200 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with subfusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 rarely 3 apical, suberect or spreading, oblong, acute leaves that blooms in the spring with a 3 to 6' [90 to 180 cm] long, slender, arcuate, branched, dull purple spotted with green panicle with 6 to 8, strongly ascending branches with each branch carrying 3 to 8, long lasting, glossy flowers and has narrowly triangular, acute bracts.
This plant responds best to mounting on tree fern or cork.
Synonyms Anettea sarcodes (Lindl.) Szlach. & Mytnik 2006; Baptistonia sarcodes (Lindl.) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2004; Gomesa sarcodes (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009; Oncidium rigbyanum Paxt. 1849
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 7 1957 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 1 1968 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 3 1972 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 10 1982 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 1 1991 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 2 2001 photo; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004 drawing/photo ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Baptistonia sarcodes; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 117 Castro 2006 as Baptistonia sarcodes drawing/photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 as Gomesa sarcodes photo fide; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 as Baptistonia sarcodes photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 3 2017 drawing fide
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