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Orchid Species: Oncidium cinnamomeum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium cinnamomeum is an orchid species identified by (R.Warner & B.S.Williams) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2008.
ORIGIN: Found in northwest Venezuela on ridges at the edges of the paramo at elevations of 2000 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with ovoid, compressed, ancipitous, tapering to a point apically pseudobulbs enveloped by distichous, imbricate leafless and internally leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, acute, conspicuously attenuate into the base leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on an axillary, through the inner leaf-bearing sheath, racemose to paniculate, 8 to 20 [20 to 40 cm] long, few to many flowered, longer than the leaves inflorescence with oval, acute bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.5 inches [6.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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