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Oncidium volvox is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1854. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium maizifolium.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Venezuela at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with egg-shaped, laterally compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally, by several, imbricating, distichous leafless and leaf bearing sheaths and carrying one to 2 apical, oblong to lanceolate, acute, ventrally keeled entirely, dorsally folded below to form a short petiole-like stem leaves that blooms in the late spring and fall on an axillary, 39 to 59 [100 to 150 cm] long, erect then arching, twining, paniculate, slightly fractiflex, laxly many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb with each major, 12 [30 cm] long branch carrying 15 to 20, widely spread, fragrant 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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