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Oncidium macrorhynchum is an orchid species identified by 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 cheirophorum.
ORIGIN: Found from Nicaragua to Colombia as a dwarf, cool to cold growing epiphyte in lower montane rainforests at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters often in full sun on larger branches.
DESCRIPTION: Found from Nicaragua to Colombia as a dwarf, cool to cold growing epiphyte in lower montane rainforests at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters often in full sun on larger branches with smooth, lightly brown stained, pyriform, laterally compressed pseudobulbs with a single apical, thin, elliptic-lanceolate leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a slender, erect to arching, to 12 [30 cm] long, densely many flowered panicle arising on a mature pseudobulb that has triangular bracts with fragrant, waxy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: Less than 3/4 inch [less than 1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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