Oncidium helicanthum Kraenzl. 1922 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 © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Martín Batiti ©
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Common Name The Twisted Flower Oncidium
Flower Size to about 1/2" [to 1.25 cm]
Found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in disturbed, low evergreen forests at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with short, broadly truncate towards the apex pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, cylindrical, becoming pendant with age, acuminate sulcate leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a paniculate, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.
Synonyms Cohniella helicantha (Kraenzl.) Cetzal & Carnevali 2010; Cohniella teres (Ames & C. Schweinf.) Christenson 1999; Oncidium teres Ames & C. Schweinf. 1925; Stilifolium teres (Ames & C. Schweinf.) Koniger & Pongr 1997; Trichocentrum helicanthum (Kraenzl.) J.M.H.Shaw 2012; Trichocentrum teres (Ames & C.Schweinf.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as O teres drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as O teres; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as O teres; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1063 Dodson 1984 as O teres drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as O teres; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 as O teres drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol,16 No 2 2001 as Trichocentrum teres; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Cohniella teres; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Cohniella teres; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as Trichocentrum teres; J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 137: 198 Cetzal & Carnevali 2010 as Cohniella helicantha drawing fide; Lankesteriana 12[3]: 207 - 214 Romero 2014 as Cohniella helicanthum photo fide; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade as Cohniella helicantha photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Cohniella cebolleta photo fide
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