Tolumnia bahamensis (Nash) Braem 1986

Another Flower

Photos by Prem Subrahmanyam and his Florida Native Orchids Website

Inflorescence

Photo by Stephen Jones

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Common Name The Bahamian Tolumnia

Flower Size to .8" [2 cm]

Found in Florida and the Bahamas in scrub Rosemary bushes in exteremly bright conditions as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing equitant epiphytic species found with a small inconspicuous pseudobulb completely enveloped by the overlapping bases of the distichous, imbricating, 4 to 8, leathery, green, all held in one plane [fan-shaped], lanceolate, acute, conduplicate leaves with saw toothed margins that blooms in the late spring on a to 25" [64 cm] long, axillary, many [25] flowered, racemose inflorescence.

The flowers pictured here came from a native plant near Juptiter Florida.

Synonyms *Oncidium bahamense Nash 1920; Oncidium variegatum subsp. bahamense (Nash) Withner 1980;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 #9 1958 as Oncidium variegatum; The Native Orchids Of Florida Luer 1972 as Oncidium bahamense Drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #8 1975 as Oncidium bahamense; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1980 photo ok as Oncidium scandens; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1980 photo ok as Oncidium bahamense; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 4 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 2 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 2 1995; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 photo plant only; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 6 2008 photo good; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 10 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #8 2011 photo fide;

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