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Oncidium lindleyoides M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams

Orchidaceae · Venezuela, Colombia +1 · listed by its genus as an orchid

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Habitat figuresfrom few records
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
7.6°C
Record low 3.8 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
20°C
Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct and Dec at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,383mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
29–39DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, April to June and September to November (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 3 records in 3 grid cells. The records.

Summary

Oncidium lindleyoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. It was first described by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1854 as Odontoglossum lindleyanum. When transferred to Oncidium in 2008, the epithet lindleyanum could not be used because it had already been published for a different species, so the replacement name O. lindleyoides was used.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Oncidium lindleyoides", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Oncidium

Oncidium is a genus of about 370 species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It is distributed across tropical and subtropical America from Mexico, Central America and the West Indies to northern Argentina, with one species (O. ensatum) extending into Florida. Common names for plants in this genus include dancing-lady orchid.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Oncidium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Oncidium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”.

Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,350 mm of 1,917 mm) falls in April to June and September to November. The temperature curve is flat, 0.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

1,917 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,350 mm of it April to June and September to November. Wettest month October at 322 mm, driest month January at 52 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,322 mm to 2,777 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,383 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,917 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 39 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 28, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 7.6 °C, the absolute minimum 3.8 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 24.3 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 9.5 °C in August and September (across the grid cells of the range 9.5 °C to 15.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 20.3 °C in February and September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 7.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 59 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +45 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Group. Listed under the genus Oncidium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

From few records: this habitat climate is read from 3 records in 3 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Oncidium lindleyoides through the yearWarmest months January, February, March, April, May, July, August, September, October and December, mean daily high 20 °C; coldest months August and September, mean nightly low 9.5 °C; 1,917 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.0°5°10°15°20°25°30°24.3° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER3.8° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 29–39RH 59–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 3 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C20 / 19–2120 / 19–2120 / 19–2120 / 19–2120 / 19–2119 / 19–2120 / 19–2120 / 20–2120 / 20–2120 / 19–2119 / 18–2120 / 19–21
Night °C10 / 9–1510 / 9–1510 / 10–1511 / 11–1611 / 10–1610 / 10–1610 / 10–1610 / 10–1610 / 9–1610 / 10–1510 / 10–1510 / 9–15
Rain mm52 / 26–10568 / 35–137107 / 54–203167 / 141–287280 / 153–313130 / 73–280107 / 61–273115 / 61–324192 / 98–382322 / 179–432259 / 153–280118 / 84–153
DLI33 / 33–3635 / 34–3736 / 35–3834 / 33–3634 / 29–3636 / 29–3738 / 29–3839 / 30–4038 / 30–4133 / 28–3629 / 29–3232 / 31–32
RH %61 / 60–6361 / 60–6362 / 61–6465 / 63–6564 / 62–6661 / 61–6559 / 59–6459 / 58–6560 / 59–6664 / 62–6767 / 64–6764 / 62–65
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 3 grid cells holding the 3 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1687:2129 (5.625, -73.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 3.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 7.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 24.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 3 distinct grid cells holding 3 of the 3 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1687:2129 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 5.50_-73.750, lapse-corrected +45 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 2307 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeVenezuela, Colombia, Ecuador · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 5 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 3 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1259 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map and the climate. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Solanum stellatiglandulosum Solanum stellatiglandulosum Solanaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos TorrenteMonochaetum bonplandii Monochaetum bonplandii Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeComparettia macroplectron Comparettia macroplectron Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Ryan F. MandelbaumCedrela montana Cedrela montana Andean Cedar Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch Uribe Stelis velaticaulis Orchidaceae Citharexylum subflavescens Citharexylum subflavescens Verbenaceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch Uribe

Other Oncidium 69 in the reference

Oncidium abruptum Orchidaceae Oncidium alexandrae Oncidium alexandrae Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos TorrenteOncidium altissimum Oncidium altissimum Wydler's dancing-lady orchid Photo: CC BY, chrisdt Oncidium ansiferum Orchidaceae Oncidium anthocrene Orchidaceae Oncidium astranthum Orchidaceae Oncidium baueri Oncidium baueri Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo Luiz Oncidium boothianum Orchidaceae Oncidium bracteatum Oncidium bracteatum Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedOncidium bryolophotum Oncidium bryolophotum Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedOncidium cariniferum Oncidium cariniferum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, River AhlquistOncidium cheirophorum Oncidium cheirophorum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Lesley Aguirre all 70 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Odontoglossum epidendroides; Odontoglossum lindleyanum; Odontoglossum lindleyanum f. parviflorum; Odontoglossum lindleyanum var. parviflorum; Oncidium lindleyoides var. parviflorum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams
Native to
Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
Wild records
5 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 5.50_-73.750, lapse-corrected +45 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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