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Oncidium gracile is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Beer in 1837. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Gomesa gracilis.
ORIGIN: Found in Belo Horizonte area of Minas Gerais, and Bahia states of Brazil at elevations of 950 to 1400 meters in dry savannahs or on dry iron ore hillsides under scrub.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing, semi-terrestrial among grasses in sandy soil or lithophyte in rock crevasses under scrub trees or as an epiphyte in woodlands at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters with tightly clustered pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical leaves that blooms in the summer on a erect, 12 to 40 [30 cm to 1 meters] long, few to several [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence with longlasting, well spaced flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2/3 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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