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Orchid Species: Oncidium cruentoides
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium cruentoides is an orchid species identified by M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2008.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1800 to 2550 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, caespitose, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ellipsoid, complanate, lightly sulcate pseudobulbs with the base enveloped by several pairs of distichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost bearing leaves which are oblong-oblanceolate, shortly attenuate to conduplicate, petiolate, abruptly acuminate leaves with 2 being apical to the pseudobulb that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 6 to 7 [15 to 18 cm] long, shorter than the leaves, several [6 to 8] flowered inflorescence that arises on a mature pseudobulb basally erect but with the flowers weight at the end it is pendant to horizontal.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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