Unknown orchid

[Marinarawr]

Hello! I'm new to the forums and I also have an orchid that needs identification. I've had it for a few years now (3-4) and I'm assuming that it won't be growing any more than it has already. There were originally two (same type) but one lives with my mother and unfortunately she got the one that blooms regularly. The flowers are very tiny, light purple, and grow on sort of a zig-zagging stem. I've tried in vain to find a photo of any flower that's similar to the one this one produces but I was wrong in assuming that there weren't many types of orchids . Anyway... enough of my jabbering.

Pot is ~6.5" across the top


Thanks in advance for the help

[Orchidophile]

Welcome to the board Marina!, Your plant looks like it might be in the Oncidium alliance, I think I see a small pseudobulb but I might be mistaken. Without flowers, orchid identification is almost impossible because of the vast hybridyzing.

[Marinarawr]

Ok so cb977 was generous enough to let me use one of her photos to show you what the stems and blossoms look like on my orchid. This picture and the orchid pictured belong to cb977 and she receives all credit for photography.



Only the stems and the flowers growing from them are similar (you can see the leaves are very different). The color is also different but cb977's photo is much more descriptive than "sort of a zig-zagging stem" is .

And I think you were right Orchidophile... I probably have some indistinguishable hybrid. I can't even go ask the person who grew it because I got it as a hand-me-down from a relative of a friend of my grandmother's cat sorta deal... I have no idea where this little orchid originated. Anyway... Thanks so much for your help!!