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Orchid Species: Oncidium blandum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium blandum is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams in 2008.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Santander and Norte de Santander Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at the edge of mist forests at elevations of 1000 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial caespitose herb found in very wet, montane forests, with elliptic-pyriform, complanate, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by several foliar sheaths with linear-lanceolate, acute, carinate mid-vein, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, 6 1/2 to 7 [17 to 19 cm] long, slender, terete, few flowered inflorescence with a few distant narrow bracts and minute, ovate, long acuminate floral bracts arising on a mature pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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