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Oncidium maderoi is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1920. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium ornithorhynchum.
ORIGIN: A small sized, cold growing epiphytic species from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru found at altitudes of 2000 to 3300 meters in the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental.
DESCRIPTION: A small sized, cold growing epiphytic species from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru found at altitudes of 2000 to 3300 meters in the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental and blooms in the summer in Bogata' and has ovoid to cylindrical, compressed, unifoliateto trifoliate pseudobulbs with oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong acute or acuminate leaves that blooms mostly in the summer on a erect to pendant, to 20 [50 cm] long, shortly paniculate inflorescence carrying many fragrant, canary yellow flowers and a few interspersed throughout, sterlie star shaped flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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