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Oncidium stenostalix is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.) in 1922. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium sphacelatum.
ORIGIN: Found in tropical and mountain rain forests occurring in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Venezuela where it is found below 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This is a giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with compressed, oblong pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, linear-ligulate, suberect, rigid, acute leaves. Blooms in the spring with a basal, to 6' [180 cm] long, lateral to pendulous, short branched, purple mottled panicle arising from the leaf bearing sheaths of a mature pseudobulb that has triangular bracts and carrying showy, weakly fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: To 1 inch [to 2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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