Oncidium storkii Ames & C. Schweinf. . 1930 SECTION Excavata
Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of The Epidendra Website
Drawing by Willibald Koniger
Common Name Stork's Oncidium [Original Collector of Species 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica in premontane to montane cloudforests at elevations around 1150 to 2950 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with pyriform, somewhat compressed, sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 4, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, apical, erect, elliptic-lanceolate, bluntly acute, gradually narrowing and conduplicate into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on an axillary, to 10" to 18" [25 to 45 cm] long, paniculate, erect, 3+ branched, 3 to 8 flowered per branch, many flowered inflorescence occuring in the winter and spring.
Unusual in the genus in its downward facing branches of the inflorescence carrying flowers that all face forwards and parellel to each other and note opposing as is normal in the genus.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Schedul. Orchid. 10: 106. 1930; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1474 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing fide; 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; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/ Oncidium Bakers 2005; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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