Gomesa varicosa
A dancing-lady orchid of central and southern Brazil and neighbouring countries, formerly Oncidium varicosum. It carries tall, branched sprays of yellow flowers with a large lip. Unlike most Atlantic Forest oncidiines, much of its range is cerrado and rocky grassland with a hot, sunny, markedly dry winter. It grows in bright light on shrubs, small trees and rocks.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe it as an epiphyte on shrubs and small trees in cerrado, such as Dalbergia, and on Vellozia; as a lithophyte on quartzite in campo rupestre; and as an epiphyte at forest edges and in Araucaria mixed forest, including beside rapids. Several labels call it heliophilous. Occasionally it grows terrestrially in open ground.
Wild records span 0–1729 m, median 850 m. Many are from the central Brazilian plateau (Distrito Federal, Goiás, Minas Gerais) at about 800–1200 m.
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