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Epiphytes include more than 60 species of orchids (Oncidium, Miltonia, Catasetum, and Warmingia, among other genera).
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Several orchids are found growing on these trees: Caularthron bicornutum, Oncidium obrizatum and the highly endangered Cattleya aurea.
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I have a Paph, Beallara, and Oncidium, all of which are due to be repotted.
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The orchid Oncidium ‘Sharry Baby’ is blooming now.
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This is especially true for some species of orchids of genus Oncidium, Cycnoches, Schomburgkia, Brassavola, Encyclia, Lycaste many species of Catteya, and the species Masdevallia tovarencis (endemic of the central portion of the Cordillera de la Costa).
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He published The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Oncidium, a book of his paintings and research, in 1998.
Robin Williams, Ruffled by C.P.W. Co-op Board, Sells Pad For $9 Million 2000
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But now he frowned as he moved toward a grouping of plants labeled Oncidium varicosum.
Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997
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Going through the intermediate room, Helen Troy caught her heel between the slats of the walk, teetered, waved a bottle, and down came two pots of Oncidium varicosum.
Murder By The Book Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1951
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In the flowers of a species of _Oncidium_, communicated to me by Mr. Currey, the lip was divided into three segments perfectly distinct one from the other, but confluent with the column; the two side pieces had callosities at the upper edge close to the base, the central piece had a similar wartlike process in its centre.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Sternbergianum_, &c. As an accidental occurrence, a similar thing has been noticed in _Lychnis coronaria_, _Phaius grandifolius_, _Oncidium cebolleta_, _Epidendrum elongatum_, [113] &c. &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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