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Oncidium oerstedii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1854. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trichocentrum oerstedii.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
DESCRIPTION: As a large sized, hot to cool growing, mule eared epiphyte in humid deciduous forests on tree trunks and large branches that has a small bract covered pseudobulb that has a single, coriaceous to fleshy, elliptic, sharply keeled abaxially leaf that is conduplicate at the base, that blooms in the later spring on a basal, erect to arching, to 5' [to 150 cm] long, many laxly small flowered, panicle that has the peduncle subtended by a scarious sheath and scarious, triangular sheaths at the nodes.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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