Oncidium lacerum 1844 SECTION Cebolletae
Photo by © W. Cetzal-Ix and Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
Common Name The Torn Oncidium [refers to the lip shape]
Flower Size to 1" [to 2.5 cm]
Found in Panama at elevations of 20 to 100 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with small, cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped completely by 4 to 6 papery, imbricate, evanescent sheaths and a single, fleshy terete leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, horizontal to ascending, paniculate, 9 to 28" [24 to 70 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb with the showy flowers held at the apex.
Synonyms Cohniella lacera (Lindl.) Cetzal 2012; Cohniella stipitata (Lindl.) Christenson 1999; Oncidium stipitatum Lindl. 1846; Oncidium stipitatum var. platyonyx Rchb.f. 1878; Stilifolium stipitatum (Lindl.) Königer & Pongratz 1997; Trichocentrum lacerum (Lindl.) J.M.H.Shaw 2012; Trichocentrum nudum subsp. stipitatum (Lindl.) Dressler & N.H.Williams 2003; Trichocentrum stipitatum (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 drawing ok; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as On stipitatum var platyonyx; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 87. Panama Schlechter 1922; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 as Oncidium stipitatum photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as Trichocentrum stpitatum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Cohniella stipata; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Cohniella stipitata; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 as Trichocentrum stipitatum photo fide; Lankesteriana 12[3]: 207 - 214 Romero 2014 as Cohniella lacera photo fide; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade as Cohniella lacera photo fide;
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