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Orchid Species: Oncidium odoratum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oncidium odoratum is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Beer in 1854.
ORIGIN: A small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte occurring in Colombia and Venezuela in rainforests at elevations of 1600 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte occurring in Colombia and Venezuela in rainforests at elevations of 1600 to 2500 meters with ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally grooved or rugose pseudobulbs enveloped partially by several, distichous, imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths carrying 2 apical, erect, to arching, lanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into the long, narrow, petiole-like base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an axillary, erect, many flowered, 3'+ [90 cm+] long, paniculate inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and carrying very fragrant, long-lived flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2+ inches [5 cm+]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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