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Orchid Species: Oncidium abortivum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium abortivum is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1850.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela Colombia, Peru and Ecuador in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 200 to 1850 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with round, compressed, smooth pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several leaf-like sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, acute, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms on a 2 [5 cm] long, paniculate, several flowered inflorescence with a few sterile flowers on each branch and only one or two viable flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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