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Oncidium phymatochilum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1848. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Miltonia phymatochila.
ORIGIN: Found as a short, medium sized, warm to cool growing, erect epiphyte in Mexico, Guatemala and Espirito Santo state Brazil at elevations 650 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a short, medium sized, warm to cool growing, erect epiphyte in Mexico, Guatemala and Espirito Santo state Brazil at elevations 650 to 1300 meters with fusiform, slightly compressed, enveloped basally by several imbricating sheaths and carrying a single apical, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, dark green, speckled red basally leaf and blooms in the fall on a pendant, 3 to 6' [90 to 180 cm] long, loosely many flowered, fractiflex panicle that is pale green with crimson spots and has showy, spicely fragrant flowers with highly variable lateral sepals.
FLOWER SIZE: To 2 inches [to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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