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Oncidium sanderae is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in 1910. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Psychopsis sanderae.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru at elevations most likely around 1220 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests high on tree trunks and branches with ovate or ovate-elliptic, complantae, wrinkled psedubulbs with a single, apical narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous leaf with a conduplicate petiolate base that blooms on an erect, 11 [28 cm] long, single successively flowered inflorescence subtended by tubular, scarious bracts arising on a mature pseudobulb occurring in the spring. The inflorescence have been know to produce plantlets from near the apex.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [3 cm] wide 3 3/4 inches [9 cm] tall
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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