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Oncidium cebolleta
Photo take in a path trough the jungle high attach to a tree this i believe is an Orchid?? Small flowers about 2 cm each tag together attaching to a long vine coming from the plant i don´t know if is native but is a regular spotting plant.
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Thank you very much Craig
I have seen this plant many times in the jungle in remote places usually no flowers only the cylindrical leaves, this is the first time i seen the flowers.
Wow! So cool to see wild shots of these. cormoros is right, this is an Oncidium. It's a very unusual one because it has terete (more or less cylindrical) leaves. There is a small section of the genus called Cebolletae, in which all the species have terete leaves. The most widespread is Oncidium cebolleta & I suspect that's what you've spotted here.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tomnz/oncfr...
It is supposed to be very variable flower wise. There is another species listed as found in Mexico, Oncidium ascendens & in the link above, the flower of O.stipitatum looks very similar to your spotting but this species is listed as native of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, not Mexico. It's never out of the question that this could be a new record for that species but most likely it is a form of O.cebolleta.
Spotted on Feb 26, 2012
Submitted on Feb 26, 2012
