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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Oncidium

Hierarchical position of the Genus Oncidium

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Orchidales Raf. pub. Anal. Nat.: 197. Apr-Jul 1815.       Subordo  Orchidineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: xxxviii. Jul 1841.       Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids       Tribus  Oncidieae Pfitzer pub. Entwurf. Anordn. Orch.: 106. Jan-Apr 1887.       Subtribus  Oncidiinae Benth. pub. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 288. 21 Feb 1881.       Genus  Oncidium Sw. pub. (1800) common name: dancing-lady orchid

Named members of the Genus Oncidium

1	Species  alatum Cogn. syn. Oncidium meirax
2	Species  altissimum (Jacq.) Sw. common name: Wydler's dancing-lady orchid
3	Species  bahamense Nash ex Britt. & Millsp. syn. Tolumnia bahamensis
4	Species  baueri auct. non Lindl. syn. Oncidium altissimum
5	Species  carthaginense (Jacq.) Sw. common name: Coot Bay dancing-lady orchid
6	Species  ensatum Lindl. common name: Latin American orchid
7	Species  floridanum Ames common name: Florida orchid
8	Species  leiboldii auct. non Reichenb. f. syn. Tolumnia variegata
9	Species  luridum auct. non Lindl. syn. Oncidium undulatum
10	Species  meirax Reichenb. f. common name: winged-lady orchid
11	Species  prionochilum Kraenzlin syn. Tolumnia prionochila
12	Species  undulatum (Sw.) Salisb. common name: Cape Sable orchid
13	Species  variegatum (Sw.) Sw. syn. Tolumnia variegata
14	Species  wydleri Reichenb. f. syn. Oncidium altissimum

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.