Oncidium cheirophorum Rchb. f.

Common Name The Hand Carrying Oncidium - The Colombia Buttercup

Flower Size less than 3/4" [less than 1.5 cm]

Found from Nicaragua to Colombia as a dwarf, cool to cold growing epiphyte in lower montane rainforests at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters often in full sun on larger branches with smooth, lightly brown stained, pyriform, laterally compressed psuedobulbs with a single apical, thin, elliptic-lanceolate leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a slender, erect to arching, to 12" [30 cm] long, densely many flowered panicle arising on a mature pseudobulb that has triangular bracts with fragrant citrus to lemon scented, waxy flowers.

Synonyms Oncidium dielsianum Kraenzl. 1922; Oncidium macrorhynchum Kraenzl. 1922

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