Oncidium_fimbriatum_(6_of_26)

another wide angle macro of a tiny orchid, it is one long stalk and the only one I have seen so far. Lives in a mandarin tree.

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WildFlower

Lion

Apparantly the latest valid name is Gomesa ciliata.
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2015/details/species/id/1781d73216d776bc0a22d77ce91d6dbd/synonym/34c805cc6d4ab33ba384d4f7c8f34d4e

However, it doesn't look exactly the same to me... It could be another species of Oncidium.
http://forum.theorchidsource.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/136720/Oncidium_fimbriatum.html
http://www.orchidspecies.com/oncfimbriatum.htm
http://www.pybio.org/3089/orchidaceae/
http://orquideasdamatatlantica.com/Oncidium.html Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago
1. Annette Flottwell
  
  Lion
  
  Thank you ! Yes, that is a great list of links!
  I can only dream of a good internet connection to explore it all properly.
  Also I was torn between 3 species in the university of CR list and NONE looked exactly the same.
  So I will keep an eye on it, will make a little wooden sponge for it and fix it on top, that should get it through the dry season or summer which is coming now. When it flowers next, I will look whether it still looks the same. I have noticed previously that the spots on another orchid look different from season to season.
  
  BTW do you know what this one is? Beats me!
  
  Posted 9 years ago
2. 1. WildFlower
    
    Lion
    
    No luck with this one either. Posted 9 years ago

Gary Yong Gee

Giant Tortoise

Oncidium fimbriatum [syn. Gomesa cornigera, Baptistonia cornigera, Baptistonia fimbriata] is a Brazilian species, which has a cruciform [cross-shaped[ flower.

This looks to me to be Cohniella ascendens [syn. Trichocentrum ascendens, Oncidium ascendens], named for the ascending lip side lobes. Sometimes the side lobes ascend forward towards the viewer or bee, rather than upright near the column-wings.

Cohniella ascendens is widely distributed in Central America from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

Plants of Cohniella have a tiny obscure pseudobulb, topped by a fleshy nearly terete leaf. This has given rise to the common name of "rat-tail oncidium" to this genus. The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families lumps Cohniella in Trichocentrum. The plant and floral morphology is so distinctive that I I recognise Cohniella as distinct.

Posted 6 years ago

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