Oncidium warmingii Rchb. f. 1881 SECTION Synsepala

Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista

Plant in situ, Carapusa MG Brazil

Photo by Jay Pfahl

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Common Name or Meaning Warming's Oncidium [Danish Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in La Caraça - Pic Da Carapuça - Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo states of Brazil and Venezuela in open rocky places, shrublands and rarely in forests at elevations around 800 to 1000 [2700] meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with cylindrical, smooth, slightly to strongly compressed and lightly grooved with age pseudobulbs with an occasional basal leaf-bearing sheath and carrying 2, apical, light green, acute, lanceolate, thin, stiff leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on a basal, erect, paniculate, to 39" [100 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with 3 to 4, short, loosely 3 to 7 flowered branches and carrying scentless flowers.

Synonyms Ampliglossum warmingii (Rchb.f.) Campacci 2006; Coppensia warmingii (Rchb.f.) Campacci 2006; Gomesa warmingii (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009; Oncidium gomesii Cogn. 1906; Oncidium vagans C. Schweinf. 1958

References Oncidium venustum Drap. 1836 *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881;Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium gomesii; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 5 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Oncidium Vol 1 Koniger 2004 photo/drawing fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 8 2007 as Coppensia warmingii photo fide; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 as Coppensia warmingii photo fide

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