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Oncidium hydrophilum is an orchid species identified by Barb.Rodr. in 1877. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Gomesa hydrophila.
ORIGIN: Found in Bahia, Tocantins, Goias, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil in swamps and swampy grasslands at elevations around 50 to 1250 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with smooth, ovoid dark green pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by papery sheaths and carrying 2 leathery, strap-shaped, erect, dark green leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, paniculate, to 79 [to 200 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence held up by the surrounding grass, scrub and bush and carrying the flowers towards the apex.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 to 1.2 inches [2 to 3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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