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Orchid Species: Oncidium marinii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium marinii is an orchid species identified by (Königer) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2008.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador on the eastern slopes at elevations around 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot ot warm growing epiphyte with strongly flattened pseudobulbs with 2 sharp edges and is partially enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths carrying a single, narrowly lanceolate, thin, leathery, acute leaf that is longitudinally folded along the midline and narrows basally to a petiole-like stem that blooms on an axillary, arching to spreading, more than one per, many successively flowered inflorescence arising from the axils of the leaf bearing sheaths of a recently matured pseudobulb.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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