Dancing lady orchid occurs as genus that contains about 330 species of orchids from the subfamily Epidendroideae of the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This occurs as complex, hard genus, by owning numerous mintage existence reclassified. Calls come wreak splitting this genus into multiple genera.

Description

This genus was number one described by Olof Swartz in 180By using a orchidaceous plant Butterfly plant altissimum, which has get a nature and severity coinage. Its title is from either a Greek word "onkos", meaning "swelling". This refers to a callus at the moo lip.

Virtually all metal money around Butterfly plant come epiphytes, although some come lithophytes or terrestrials. It is far flung from either northern Mexico, the Caribbean, some area of South Florida to South-America. It normally occur inside seasonally dry areas.

It may be divided within tercet categories, based on data from their incubation pattern : Some keep close at hand green pseudobulbs and long racemes with little flowers & the dominant lip. It is mostly golden yellowness, however a bit of come black or even yellowish-dark brown. Another class action has super little pseudobulbs & strong, vertical, solitary leaves. These cylindric leaves work as a water supply reserve. It own hanker racemes sustaining yellow flowers that seem to spread out at a top. Sizes a single orchidaceous plant may deviate from either miniature plants of two or three of centimeter to giants by having 30 cm-hanker leaves & racemes of extra than one metre long. Formerly there was a third class action, known as the Variegata or even equitant butterfly plant. It use at times there is no pseudobulbs, generating fan-shaped shoots of less than Fifteen cm, sustaining triangular subdivision leaves. These ellipse, broad & spongy leaves work when storage organs. Their flowers come virtually all complicated sustaining exquisite colors. A sepals come somewhat overweight. A flower petal & a lip come membranaceous. These orchidaceous plant come currently classified when Tolumnea.

Butterfly orchid metal money come characterized per ensuing properties : presence of column wings presence of the complicated callus on the lip (this can be utilized to separate a taxa). pseudobulbs with one to 3 leaves. several radical bracts at the base of the pseudobulbs.

A flowers of the Oncidium genus came within shades of yellowness, red, white & pink. A flower petal come typically ruffled on the edges, when is the lip. A lip is tremendous, part blocking a little flower petal & sepals.

A select few Dancing lady orchid orchidaceous plant may be hanker : Oncidum altissimum & Butterfly plant baueri could develop to the height of V m, when Oncidum sarcodes could email Iii m.

It is referred to as 'spray orchidaceous plant' among a few florists. It is super varied & come well hybridised using Odontoglossum. Together sustaining closely related genera when Cochlioda & Miltonia, it form a Odontoglossum-alliance. A better hybrids originate from either Oncicium tigrinum & Butterfly orchid incurvum, whilst crossed sustaining Odontoglossums.

Species

Dancing lady orchid aberrans (Brazil - Paraná). Butterfly orchid abortivum (North. Venezuela to Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid abruptum (Colombia to Ecuador). Butterfly orchid acinaceum (Ecuador to Peru). Butterfly plant acrochordonia (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid adelaidae (Colombia). Butterfly plant advena (North. Venezuela). Dancing lady orchid albini (Brazil - Paraná). Butterfly orchid alcicorne (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid allenii (Panama). Dancing lady orchid aloisii (Ecuador). Butterfly plant altissimum : '''Wydler's Dancing-lady Orchid' (Jamaica). Dancing lady orchid amabile (Brazil). Butterfly plant amictum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant amoenum (Mexico). Butterfly plant andradeanum (Ecuador to Peru). Dancing lady orchid andreae (Colombia). Butterfly orchid andreanum (SW. Mexico). Butterfly plant angustisegmentum (Peru). Dancing lady orchid × ann-hadderae (O. haitiense × O. variegatum) (Dominican Republic). Dancing lady orchid anomalum (Colombia). Butterfly plant ansiferum (C. America to Colombia). Dancing lady orchid anthocrene (Colombia to Ecuador). Butterfly plant antioquiense (Colombia). Butterfly orchid ariasii (Peru). Butterfly orchid arizajulianum (Dominican Republic). Butterfly plant armillare (W. South Us to North. Venezuela). Butterfly plant aspecum (Peru). Dancing lady orchid auricula (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant auriferum (Colombia to NW. Venezuela). Butterfly plant aurorae (Peru). Dancing lady orchid ayabacanum (Peru). Butterfly orchid baccatum (Venezuela). Dancing lady orchid bahiense (Cogn.) Schltr (NE Brasil) Butterfly orchid barbaceniae (Brazil - Minas Gerais). Butterfly plant barbatum (Brazil to Bolivia). Butterfly orchid batemannianum (Brazil to Peru). Butterfly plant baueri (Trop. Usa). Butterfly plant bennettii (Peru). Butterfly plant bichrome (NE. Venezuela to Brazil). Butterfly plant bidentatum (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid bifolium (Brazil to North. Argentina). Dancing lady orchid blanchetii (E. & S. Brazil.). Butterfly orchid boothianum (Venezuela to Ecuador). Butterfly orchid brachyandrum (Mexico) Dancing lady orchid brachystachys (Colombia). Butterfly orchid brachystegium (Bolivia). Butterfly plant bracteatum (Costa Rica to Colombia). Butterfly plant braunii (Trop. United states of america) (?). Butterfly plant brevilabrum (Colombia. Butterfly plant brunleesianum (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Butterfly plant brunnipetalum (S. Brazil). Butterfly plant bryocladium (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid bryolophotum (Costa Rica to Panama). Dancing lady orchid buchtienii (Bolivia). Butterfly plant bustosii Königer (Ecuador) Butterfly orchid calanthum (Ecuador to Peru). Butterfly orchid callistum (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid calochilum (Caiman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic). Butterfly orchid caminiophorum (North. Venezuela). Butterfly plant cardiostigma (Mexico). Butterfly orchid × cassolanum (O. cornigerum × O. riograndense) (S. Brazil). Butterfly orchid caucanum (Colombia). Butterfly plant chapadense (Brazil - Goiás). Dancing lady orchid cheirophorum (Mexico - Chiapas to Colombia). Dancing lady orchid chrysomorphum (Colombia to North. Venezuela). Dancing lady orchid chrysops (Mexico - Guerrero, Oaxaca). Butterfly plant chrysopteranthum (Brazil). Butterfly orchid chrysopterum (WC. Brazil to Bolivia). Butterfly orchid chrysothyrsus (SE. Brazil) Butterfly orchid ciliatum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly orchid citrinum (Trinidad to Venezuela). Butterfly plant cogniauxianum (SE. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid × colnagoi.( O. forbesii × O. ) (SE. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid coloratum (Brazil - Espírito Santo). Butterfly plant compressicaule (Haiti). Butterfly orchid concolor (Brazil to NE. Argentina). Butterfly plant cornigerum (SE. & S. Brazil to Paraguay). Butterfly plant crassopterum (Peru). Butterfly plant crispum (SE. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid cristatellum (Brazil to Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid croesus (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Butterfly orchid cruciferum (Peru). Butterfly orchid cultratum (Ecuador) . Butterfly plant curtum (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Butterfly orchid cycnicolle (Colombia to Ecuador). Butterfly orchid dactyliferum (Venezuela to Ecuador). Butterfly orchid dactylopterum (Colombia). Butterfly orchid dasystyle (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Dancing lady orchid decorousness (Colombia). Butterfly plant deltoideum (North. Peru). Butterfly orchid dichromaticum (Costa Rica to Colombia). Butterfly orchid disciferum (Bolivia). Butterfly plant discobulbon (Peru). Dancing lady orchid divaricatum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly orchid donianum (Brazil - São Paulo). Butterfly plant drepanopterum (Ecuador). Butterfly orchid durangense (Mexico - Durango). Dancing lady orchid duveenii (Brazil). Butterfly plant echinophorum (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Dancing lady orchid echinops (Ecuador). Butterfly orchid edmundoi (Brazil). Dancing lady orchid edwallii (Brazil to NE. Argentina). Dancing lady orchid elephantotis (NW. Venezuela to Ecuador). Butterfly plant emilii (Paraguay). Dancing lady orchid enderianum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly orchid endocharis (Mexico - Chiapas to C. Usa). Butterfly orchid ensatum : Latin U.s. Orchid (S. Mexico to NW. Venezuela). Butterfly plant erucatum (Ecuador). Butterfly orchid estradae (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid eurycline (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant exalatum (Panama). Butterfly orchid exasperatoides (Peru). Dancing lady orchid excavatum (C. America to Peru). Dancing lady orchid fasciculatum (Mexico - Oaxaca, Chiapas to Guatemala). Butterfly orchid fasciferum (Peru). Butterfly plant fimbriatum (Brazil to NE. Argentina). Butterfly plant flexuosum (E. & S. Brazil to NC. Argentina). Butterfly plant floridanum : Florida Orchid (S. Florida to Cuba). Dancing lady orchid × floride-phillipsae (O. prionochilum × O. variegatum) (Leeward Is.). Butterfly plant forbesii (Brazil - Minas Gerais). Butterfly orchid formosissimum (Ecuador to Peru). Dancing lady orchid fragae (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Butterfly orchid fuscans (Brazil - Minas Gerais). Butterfly orchid fuscatum (Ecuador to Peru). Butterfly plant fuscopetalum (WC. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid gardneri (Ecuador, SE. Brazil). Butterfly orchid × gardstyle (O. dasystyle × O. gardneri) (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Dancing lady orchid gauntlettii (Jamaica). Butterfly orchid geertianum (C. & SW. Mexico). Butterfly plant gilvum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant willowy (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant graciliforme (C.Panama). Butterfly orchid gracillimum (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid graminifolium (Mexico to C. America). Butterfly plant gravesianum (E. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid guianense (Hispaniola). Dancing lady orchid guibertianum (Cuba). Dancing lady orchid guttatum (Mexico to Colombia & Caribbean). Dancing lady orchid gyrobulbon (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid hagsaterianum (Mexico to Guatemala). Dancing lady orchid haitiense (Hispaniola). Butterfly plant hannelorae (Windward Is.-(Dominica). Dancing lady orchid hapalotyle (Colombia to Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid harrisonianum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant hastatum (Mexico). Dancing lady orchid hastilabium (W. South United states of america). Butterfly plant hatschbachii (Brazil - Paraná). Butterfly plant helgae (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid herzogii (Bolivia to NW. Argentina). Butterfly orchid heteranthum (S. Trop. Usa). Butterfly plant hians (Peru, SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant hieroglyphicum (Peru). Butterfly plant hintonii (North. & SW. Mexico). Butterfly plant hirtzii (Ecuador – Napo). Butterfly plant hookeri (SE. & S. Brazil. Dancing lady orchid hydrophilum (Brazil to Paraguay). Dancing lady orchid hyphaematicum (W. South Usa). Butterfly orchid imitans (Costa Rica). Butterfly orchid imperatoris-maximiliani (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Butterfly plant incurvum (Mexico - Veracruz to Chiapas). Butterfly plant inouei (Peru). Butterfly plant insigne (Brazil). Dancing lady orchid ionopterum (Peru - Cajamarca). Dancing lady orchid iricolor (Trop. America) (?). Butterfly plant isidrense (Peru). Butterfly plant isopterum (Brazil - Minas Gerais). Butterfly orchid isthmii (Costa Rica to Panama). Dancing lady orchid kautskyi (Brazil). Butterfly orchid klotzschianum (Costa Rica to Venezuela & Peru). Butterfly orchid kraenzlinianum (Brazil). Butterfly orchid kramerianum (Costa Rica to Suriname & Ecuador). Butterfly orchid lancifolium (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid leinigii (Brazil). Butterfly orchid leleui (SW. Mexico). Butterfly orchid lentiginosum (Colombia to North. Venezuela). Butterfly plant leopardinum (Peru). Butterfly plant lepidum (Ecuador). Butterfly plant lepturum (Bolivia). Butterfly plant leucochilum (SE. Mexico to Guatemala). Dancing lady orchid lietzei (SE. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid ligiae (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid lindleyi (S. Mexico to Guatemala). Butterfly plant lineoligerum (North. Peru). Butterfly orchid litum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly orchid loechiloides (Venezuela). Butterfly orchid loefgrenii (SE. & S. Brazil). Butterfly orchid longicornu (Brazil to NE. Argentina. Butterfly orchid longipes (Brazil to NE. Argentina). Butterfly plant lucasianum (Peru - Cajamarca). Butterfly plant lucayanum (Bahamas). Butterfly plant luteum (Costa Rica). Butterfly plant lykaiosii (Bolivia). Butterfly orchid macronyx (Brazil). Butterfly orchid macropetalum (WC. Brazil) Butterfly orchid maculatum (Mexico to C. United states). Butterfly orchid maculosum (Brazil - Minas Gerais. Dancing lady orchid magdalenae (NW. Venezuela - Mérida). Butterfly plant maizifolium (Colombia to NW. Venezuela). Dancing lady orchid majevskyi (Brazil). Dancing lady orchid mantense Dodson & R.Estrada (Ecuador) Butterfly orchid mandonii (Bolivia). Dancing lady orchid marshallianum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant martianum (SE. & S. Brazil). Butterfly orchid mathieuanum (Ecuador to Peru). Dancing lady orchid megalopterum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant melanops (Ecuador). Butterfly orchid micropogon (Brazil). Butterfly orchid micropogon volt-ampere. micropogon (S. Brazil). Pseudobulb epiphyte Butterfly orchid microstigma (C. & SW. Mexico). Dancing lady orchid millianum (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid miserrimum (Colombia to NW. Venezuela). Butterfly plant nebulosum (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid niesseniae (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid nigratum (Colombia to Guyana). Dancing lady orchid obryzatoides (Costa Rica to Ecuador). Butterfly plant ochmatochilum (SE. Mexico to Peru). Dancing lady orchid ochthodes (Ecuador). Butterfly plant oliganthum (Mexico - Oaxaca, Chiapas to El Salvador). Butterfly orchid orbatum (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid ornithocephalum (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid ornithopodum (Trop. Usa) (?). Dancing lady orchid ornithorynchum (Mexico to C. America). Butterfly orchid orthostates (S. Venezuela to Guyana & Brazil). Butterfly orchid orthostatoides (Peru). Butterfly plant ototmeton (Bolivia). Butterfly plant ouricanense (Brazil - Bahia). Dancing lady orchid panamense (Panama). Butterfly plant panduratum (Colombia. Butterfly orchid panduriforme (Costa Rica). Oncidium papilio (Panama to S. Trop. United states & Trinidad). Butterfly plant paranaense (Brazil to Argentina - Misiones). Butterfly orchid paranapiacabense (Brazil - São Paulo). Dancing lady orchid pardalis (North. Venezuela). Butterfly plant pardoglossum (Trop. United states of america) (?). Butterfly plant pardothyrsus (Ecuador to Peru). Dancing lady orchid parviflorum (Costa Rica to Panama). Butterfly plant pectorale (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Butterfly orchid pelicanum (Mexico - Guerrero, Oaxaca). Butterfly orchid peltiforme (Ecuador). Butterfly plant pentadactylon (W. South United states). Butterfly plant pergameneum (NC. & SE. Mexico to C. United states). Butterfly plant pictum (W. South United states). Butterfly orchid picturatum (North. Venezuela). Butterfly orchid pirarene (Guyana). Dancing lady orchid planilabre (W. South United states). Butterfly orchid platychilum (Colombia to Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid platyglossum (Colombia). Butterfly orchid pollardii (Mexico - Oaxaca). Dancing lady orchid polyadenium (Ecuador to North. Peru). Butterfly plant polyodontum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant portillae (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid posadarum (Colombia). Butterfly orchid powellii (Panama). Butterfly orchid praetextum (SE. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid prionochilum (Puerto Rico to Virgin Is.). Dancing lady orchid pubic region (Colombia, SE. Brazil to NE. Argentina). Dancing lady orchid pulchellum (Jamaica). Butterfly plant pulvinatum (Brazil to NE. Argentina). Dancing lady orchid punctulatum (Panama). Butterfly orchid pyramidale (W. South Usa). Butterfly plant pyxidophorum (Trop. United states of america) (?). Butterfly orchid quadrilobum (Hispaniola). Butterfly plant raniferum (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant reductum (Bolivia). Butterfly orchid reflexum (SW. Mexico). Butterfly plant reichenbachii (Colombia to NW. Venezuela). Butterfly orchid remotiflorum (Brazil). Butterfly orchid retusum (Peru). Butterfly orchid rhino (Trop. Us) (?). Butterfly orchid riograndense (S. Brazil to NE. Argentina. Butterfly plant riopalenqueanum (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid riviereanum (Brazil). Butterfly plant robustissimum (Brazil). Butterfly orchid rodrigoi (Colombia). Butterfly plant rostrans (Colombia). Butterfly plant rutkisii (Venezuela). Butterfly orchid sanderae (Peru - Huánuco). Dancing lady orchid sarcodes (SE. Brazil). Butterfly plant saxicola (Colombia). Dancing lady orchid schillerianum (Peru). Butterfly orchid schmidtianum (Trop. Us) (?). Butterfly plant schunkeanum (Brazil). Dancing lady orchid schwambachiae (Brazil). Butterfly orchid sclerophyllum (Costa Rica). Butterfly plant × scullyi (O. curtum × O. gravesianum) (SE. Brazil). Butterfly orchid sellowii (Brazil). Butterfly orchid semele (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid sessile (Venezuela to Peru). Dancing lady orchid silvanoi (Peru). Butterfly plant silvanum (Brazil). Dancing lady orchid spegazzinianum (Argentina - Misiones). Butterfly plant sphacelatum (Mexico to C. Usa, SE. Venezuela). Dancing lady orchid sphegiferum (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Dancing lady orchid stelligerum (SW. Mexico). Butterfly plant stenobulbon (Costa Rica). Dancing lady orchid stenotis (Costa Rica to Ecuador). Butterfly plant storkii (Costa Rica). Dancing lady orchid suave (C. & SW. Mexico, El Salvador). Dancing lady orchid subcruciforme (Nicaragua). Butterfly plant suttonii (Mexico - Chiapas to El Salvador). Butterfly plant swartzii (Windward Is.- Martinique). Butterfly orchid sylvestre (Cuba to Haiti). Butterfly orchid tectum (Colombia). Butterfly orchid tenellum (French Guiana). Butterfly plant tenuipes (Guatemala). Butterfly plant tetrotis (Colombia). Butterfly plant tigratum (Ecuador to Peru). Butterfly orchid tigrinum (C. & SW. Mexico). Butterfly orchid tipuloides (Peru). Butterfly orchid toachicum (Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid trachycaulon (Colombia to Ecuador). Butterfly orchid trichodes (North. Brazil). Butterfly plant trilobum (Peru). Butterfly orchid trinasutum (Ecuador). Butterfly plant triquetrum (Jamaica). Dancing lady orchid trulliferum (Brazil - Rio de Janeiro). Butterfly plant truncatum (Brazil - Mato Grosso). Dancing lady orchid tsubotae (Colombia). Butterfly orchid tuerckheimii (Cuba to Hispaniola). Butterfly plant unguiculatum (C. & SW. Mexico). Butterfly orchid unicolor (SE. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid uniflorum (SE. & S. Brazil). Dancing lady orchid urophyllum (Lesser Antilles). Butterfly orchid usneoides (Cuba). Butterfly plant varicosum (Brazil to North. Argentina). Dancing lady orchid variegatum (S. Florida to Caribbean). Butterfly plant variegatum subsp. bahamense (S. Florida to Bahamas). Pseudobulb epiphyte Dancing lady orchid variegatum subsp. leiboldii (Caiman Is. to Cuba). Pseudobulb epiphyte Dancing lady orchid variegatum subsp. scandens (Haiti). Pseudobulb epiphyte Butterfly orchid variegatum subsp. variegatum (Caribbean). Pseudobulb epiphyte Dancing lady orchid variegatum subsp. velutinum (Cuba). Pseudobulb epiphyte Butterfly plant vasquezii (Bolivia). Butterfly orchid venustum (Brazil). Butterfly plant vernixium (Ecuador). Butterfly orchid verrucosissimum (Paraguay to NE. Argentina). Butterfly orchid versteegianum (Suriname to Ecuador) Butterfly plant viperinum (Bolivia to NW. Argentina). Butterfly orchid virgulatum (Colombia to Ecuador). Dancing lady orchid volvox (NW. & N. Venezuela). Dancing lady orchid warmingii (S. Venezuela to Brazil). Butterfly orchid warszewiczii (Costa Rica to Colombia). Dancing lady orchid weddellii (Bolivia). Butterfly orchid welteri (Brazil - São Paulo). Butterfly plant wentworthianum (Mexico – Chiapas to El Salvador). Dancing lady orchid wheatleyanum (Brazil). Dancing lady orchid widgrenii (SE. & S. Brazil to Paraguay). Dancing lady orchid williamsii (Bolivia). Butterfly orchid xanthocentron (Colombia). Butterfly orchid xanthornis (NW. Venezuela to Ecuador). Butterfly plant zappii'' (Brazil).

Reference
Harry Zelenko :A Pictural Cyclopaedia of Butterfly plant (1997) Koniger, W. 2003. Freshly metal money of the genera Masdevallia, Dancing lady orchid & Sigmatostalix. Arcula there is no. Xii: 298-311.