Oncidium cavendishianum Batem.

Frost-tender epiphytic orchid with small pseudobulbs, each with 1 lance-shaped, rigid leaf, to 45cm long, and panicles, to 1.5m or more tall, of fragrant, waxy, yellow flowers, to 4cm across, with red spots and yellow lips, in spring.  To 60cm.  [RHSE, Pridgeon, Hortus, Jennings].

Horticultural & Botanical History

‘A noble species imported from Mexico, and inferior to O. lanceanum in the colours and fragrance of its flowers alone.’  The latter is a species collected by Parkinson for the Duke of Bedford.  [MB p.45/1839].  BM t.3807/1840.

History at Camden Park

Listed in the 1850 and 1857 catalogues [O.42/1850].  Requested from Loddiges’ Nursery on 1st February, 1849 [MP A2933-1, p.185] and obtained from them, brought out from England by Captain P. P. King in that year.  [ML A1980-3]. 

Notes

Published Jan 26, 2010 - 03:09 PM | Last updated Jan 26, 2010 - 03:15 PM

Figured is the lance-shaped leaf and raceme of small, yellow, red-spotted flowers. Curtis's Botanical Magazine t.3807, 1840.

Oncidium cavendishianum Batem. | BM t.3807/1840 | BHL

More details about Oncidium cavendishianum Batem.
Family Orchidaceae
Category
Region of origin

Central America
Synonyms
  • Oncidium pachyphyllum Hook.
  • Lophiaris pachyphylla (Hook.) R.Jiménez & Carnevali
  • Trichocentrum pachyphyllum (Hook.) R.Jiménez & Carnevali 
Common Name
Name in the Camden Park Record

Oncidium Cavendishianum 
Confidence level high