Oncidium sphegiferum Lindl. 1843 SECTION Paucituberculata Photo by © Americo Docha Neto , courtesy © Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Wasp-Carrying Oncidium

Flower Size almost 1" [to almost 2.5 cm]

Found in southeastern Brazil as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations up to 1200 meters that has broadly oval to subglobose, clustered, strongly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, rigid, elliptic-oblong, acute, pale green leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a 4 1/2' [135 cm] long, paniculate inflorescence with many waxy flowers.

O sphegiferum is very similar to and most likely is conspecific with O divaricatum, O robustissimum and O pulvinatum. If so then O divaricatum takes precendence.

Synonyms Aurinocidium sphegiferum (Lindl.) Romowicz & Szlach. 2006; Grandiphyllum sphegiferum (Lindl.) Docha Neto 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004 as O divaricatum; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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