Oncidium tetrotis Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854 SECTION Oblongata

Flower Detail

Inflorescence Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade to Cool Summer Fall

Common Name The Four Appendaged Oncidium [refers to the callus?]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia [Guatemala?] at elevations around 1800 meters as a large sized, cool growing orchid with oblong, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying leathery, linear-lanceolate, acute, becoming slightly conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an axillary, paniculate, slightly zig-zag, 6" [15 cm] between each few flowered branch that are 4 to 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, to 118" [300 cm ] long overall, many flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium chrysops drawing ok; Orquideologia Vol 23 #2 2004; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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