Oncidium ensatum
A large Oncidium of southern Florida, the Caribbean, southern Mexico, Central America and north-western Venezuela, with long, narrow leaves and branched sprays up to 2.5 m long of yellow, brown-spotted flowers. It is usually epiphytic but also grows terrestrially, and Florida plants were once treated as Oncidium floridanum. A warm-growing, strong-light orchid of seasonally dry lowlands, it needs room for its large inflorescences.
Where it grows wild
Usually an epiphyte on trees, but sometimes terrestrial in humus and leaf litter. Most of its range is lowland forest with a marked dry season, and in Florida it is associated with swampy forest and hammocks, though habitat details could not be confirmed in the sources available this round. Plants reach about 1 m tall excluding the inflorescence.
No elevation data were available. The range (southern Florida, the Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, the Bahamas) is mainly lowland, so treat it as a warm grower.
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