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|accepted_name=Oncidium ensatum
|accepted_authority=Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|place=28: Misc. 17. 1842
|year=1842
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oncidium floridanum
|authority=Ames
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae;Oncidium;Oncidium ensatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Oncidium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Oncidium ensatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 649
|treatment_page=page 648
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>mostly epiphytic, sometimes terrestrial, to 100 cm (excluding inflorescence). <b>Stems</b> modified into prominent, compressed pseudobulbs, subtended by 1–3 leafy bracts. <b>Leaves</b> 3, apical [2, lateral] on pseudobulb, 2 lateral; blade linear-lanceolate, 60–100 × 3–5 cm, not leathery. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect-arching to pendent, 100–250 cm; bracts 5–8 mm. <b>Flowers</b> yellow with numerous small brown spots; sepals reflexed, oblong-elliptic, clawed, 16 × 3.5–5.5 mm, margins somewhat undulate, apex acute; petals reflexed at least at apex, oblong-elliptic, clawed,10–14 × 5–7 mm, apex acute; lip mostly yellow with brown patches near lip callus, 11–15 × 8.5–11 mm, apiculate, middle lobe about as wide as combined lateral lobes, isthmus 5–6 mm wide; callus of central ridge with 3–5 paired lateral ridges; column yellow, with pair of erect, axe-shaped, apical wings; pedicellate ovary [15–]24 mm. <b>Capsules</b> pendent, ellipsoid, 18–20 × 8–20 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering throughout year, especially summer–fall (May–Aug; Nov–Dec).
|habitat=In rich humus of dry hammocks and epiphytic on bases and knees of cypress trees in pockets of decaying debris
|elevation=0[–1800] m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba);Central America.
|discussion=<p>In describing <i>Oncidium</i> floridanum, O. Ames (1924) stated that the Florida plants were distinct from O. sphacelatum Lindley but failed to recognize the affinities of the Florida plants to the Mexican and Central American <i>O. ensatum</i>. Several differences between the plants from Florida and a cultivated specimen of <i>O. ensatum</i> from Guatemala were cited by R. P. Sauleda and R. M. Adams (1989). My study of <i>Oncidium ensatum</i> throughout its range reveals no features consistent enough to warrant recognizing the Florida populations as a separate taxon.</p>
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name=Oncidium ensatum
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Oncidium floridanum
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering throughout year, especially summer–fall (May–Aug; Nov–Dec).
|habitat=In rich humus of dry hammocks and epiphytic on bases and knees of cypress trees in pockets of decaying debris
|elevation=0[–1800] m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba);Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|publication year=1842
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1334.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Maxillarieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Maxillarieae) subtribe Oncidiinae
|genus=Oncidium
|species=Oncidium ensatum
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