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Oncidium paleatum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1923. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium bracteatum.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica in woods and pastures on tree trunks at elevations of 1000 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, almost linear in profile, brown, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricating leafless below and leaf-bearing above sheaths and carry 1 to 2 strap shaped, obtuse, leathery, conduplicate below into the elongate, slender petiolate base that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, erect to arching, to 39 [to 100 cm] long, racemose when young inflorescence that with age becomes a short, branched panicle with several, elongate, obvious, acute, pale brown bracts and carrying many flowers with only 2 to 3 for each branch.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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