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Odontoglossum purum is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1872. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium wallisii.
ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia and Merida Venezuela on the edges of cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid, close set, longitudinally furrowed, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3 pairs of distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, narrowly linear, sharply acute, erect to arching, conduplicate below into the elongate, narrow, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an axillary, slender, erect, to 18 [to 45 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered, racemose inflorescence with the flowers loosely arranged towards the apex.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.8 inches [4.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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