Oncidium blanchetii

Oncidium blanchetii is a species of orchid native to eastern and southern Brazil. Found in the cool mountains, hot and humid lowlands and inland savannahs of eastern and southeastern Brazil as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte that occurs at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters with clustered, erect, oblong or narrowly ovoid-oblong, compressed, smooth and then sulcate with age pseudobulbs carrying 3 apical, erect, rigid, coriaceous, narrowly linear-ligulate, acute leaves and blooms in the spring through summer on an erect, 2' to 5'4"" [60 to 160 cm] long, robust, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence that is longer than the leaves and has concave, lanceolate bracts.

Oncidium blanchetii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Oncidium
Species:
O. blanchetii
Binomial name
Oncidium blanchetii
Synonyms
  • Ampliglossum blanchetii (Rchb.f.) Campacci
  • Coppensia blanchetii (Rchb.f.) Campacci

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