Oncidium uhlii (Chiron & V.P.Castro) Königer 2008 SECTION Waluewa Photo by © Guy Chiron and the Orchidstudium Webpage

Common Name or Meaning Uhl's Oncidium [Brazilian Discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .32" [.8 cm]

Found in Espiritu Santo Brazil at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic leaf that blooms on a semi-erect, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence

Synonyms *Baptistonia uhlii Chiron & V.P.Castro 2006; Gomesa uhlii (Chiron & V.P.Castro) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 as Baptistonia uhlii drawing fide/photo good

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