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Orchid Species: Oncidium panchrysum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium panchrysum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1849.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela and Colombia on south facing slopes at elevations of 2100 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to clustered, moderately compressed, ancipitous, maroon flushed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricating, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, strap-shaped, acute, conduplicate towards the base leaf that has a basal spine that persists after leaf fall and blooms in the winter on an axillary, erect, racemose to few branched, to 12 [30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a new growth before the pseudobulb forms.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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