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Oncidium fallens is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1886. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cyrtochilum diceratum.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Colombia, northern Ecuador and Peru in open, wet cloud forests in scrub at elevations of 2800 to 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a small pseudobulb enveloped completely by imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the narrow, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 13.5 [34 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence with 5 [12.5 cm] long, 2 flowered branches towards the bottom and is racemose towards the top and having prominent, ovate, concave, floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.9 inches [4.7 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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