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Orchid Species: Oncidium ghiesbreghtianum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Oncidium ghiesbreghtianum is an orchid species identified by A.Rich. & Galeotti in 1845.
Genus
Oncidium (Onc.)
Grex
ghiesbreghtianum
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
A.Rich. & Galeotti
Year
1845
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ORIGIN: A small sized, Mexican, cool to cold growing epiphytic or lithophytic species that is found in Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Mexico and Oaxaca states in mountainous oak forests at elevations around 1400 to 2300 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A small sized, Mexican, cool to cold growing epiphytic or lithophytic species that is found in Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Mexico and Oaxaca states in mountainous oak forests at elevations around 1400 to 2300 meters and grows well with Odontoglossum and has ovoid, conical or pyriform, grooved pseudobulbs with 2 apical, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on a laxly few [3 to 6] flowered, simple, erect to arcuate, 5 1/2 [14 cm] long inflorescence that is subtended by several sheathing bracts and arises on a newly forming pseudobulb.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inch [3 to 4 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Mexicoa Mex ghiesbrechtiana
Add+ Mexicoa Mex ghiesbreghtiana 1974 (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Garay
Add+ Odontoglossum Odm warneri 1845 Lindl.
Add+ Oncidium Onc warneri 1855 (Lindl.) Lindl.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Onc. ghiesbreghtianum 'Widderchen' (2 awards in 2011) Mex. ghiesbreghtiana 'Pip' (2 awards in 1980) Onc. ghiesbreghtianum 'Charlayne' (2011) Onc. ghiesbreghtianum 'Charm' (1994) Mex. ghiesbreghtiana 'Elizabeth' (1987) Mex. ghiesbreghtiana 'J & L' (1983) Mex. ghiesbreghtiana 'Riopelle' (1982) Mex. ghiesbreghtiana 'Northen' (1980) Onc. ghiesbreghtianum 'Oaxaca' (1965)
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