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Orchid Species: Oncidium nigratum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium nigratum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. & Paxton in 1850.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Venezuela, Guyana and south to Brazil in cloud forests or shrublands at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing occasional terrestrial in thin soils in scrub, lithophyte on top of mesas and epiphyte low on trees in dwarf forests with pear-shaped, pale brown to yellow green, strongly laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally grooved pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several pairs of imbricating, distichous, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, narrowly elliptic, stiff, acute, mostly keeled dorsally, shortly conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, then pendant, to more than 79 [200 cm] long, lightly or strongly paniculate, each to 24 [60 cm] long branch carrying 5 to 15 flowers, many flowered inflorescence that arises on a newly matured pseudobulb and carries slightly fragrant, showy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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