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Orchid Species: Oncidium abortivoides
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium abortivoides is an orchid species identified by M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2008.
ORIGIN: Occurs in the province of Colon and the Canal Zone of Panama at elevations of 30 to 330 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oblong elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a pair of distichous, overlapping, longitudinally folded bracts holding leaf-like blades and carrying apically, a single, linear-lanceolate to strap shaped, apically pointed leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, basal, few flowered, 4 [10 cm] long, shortly paniculate inflorescence arising from with in the leaf axil of a newly matured pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [0.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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