Tolumnia lemoniana (Lindl.) Braem 1986 Photo by The Nelocactus Website

Part shadeHot to LATERSpring

Common Name The Yellow Tolumnia

Flower Size .9" [2.2 cm]

Found in Cuba and the Dominican Republic at low elevations near the ocean as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with several, equitant, pale green, triangular in cross-section, acute, dotted and warty leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, slender, almost erect, pale brownish green, to 9.2" [to 23 cm] long, 5 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Oncidium lemonianum Lindl. 1835; Tolumnia lemoniana ssp lemoniana Braem 1990

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 2 1995; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 ; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006

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