identification help request

[smweaver]

It certainly looks like your plant could be a candidate for this species (or maybe a close relative). Mine did flower and I was, in fact, able to confirm that it's Onc. splendidum. The plant is starting to spike again now, so I think this must be the time of year when you can expect to see spikes if your plant's able (and willing) to bloom. Good luck with your plant!

[ohanahana]

thank you thank you smweaver--we'll see!!

[cneos]

I am 99% sure that this plant is in the oncidinae alliance. Absent a flower, probably the only way to positively ID is via DNA testing.

Your plant may be Psychopsis (Oncidium) papilio, a plant that, for me, is notoriously slow to grow new pseudobulbs and to flower. See my post from October 2007 ... early in 2008. I moved the plant from a five to six-inch (clear) plastic pot. There are three new pseudobulbs on the perimeter and two new p'bulbs growing among the old p'bulbs, but no inflorescences or flowers yet. I am keeping the plant because I like the mottled foliage.