Oncidium gloriosum
A cool-growing Andean orchid, long known as Odontoglossum gloriosum, from the high cloud and oak forests of Colombia's Eastern Cordillera and neighbouring Venezuela. It is an epiphyte of high Andean forest at roughly 1,800–3,000 m. It needs cool days, cold nights, constant humidity and moving air, like other cold-growing odontoglossums.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte of high Andean forest. Old labels record it in forest and on oak trees, which in this region means the Andean oak Quercus humboldtii. Recent records cluster around the Bogotá savanna and the forest remnants on the surrounding slopes.
Record elevations run from about 1,830 to 2,960 m. Many cluster at about 2,580 m, the altitude of Bogotá itself. Two records give 7,500, which is almost certainly feet (about 2,300 m).
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