

Cultivation
Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Tolumnia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”.
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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.
Group. Listed under the genus Tolumnia 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
Natural habitat
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Photographs
Photographs: Mario Guzmán, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).
Related
Other Tolumnia 4 in the reference
Tolumnia guianensis Little Yellow Angel Orchid Photo: CC0, Yolanda M. Leon
Tolumnia scandens Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Mario Guzmán
Tolumnia urophylla Dancing Lady Photo: CC0, Quentin Groom
Tolumnia variegata Harlequin dancing-lady orchid Photo: CC BY, Wes Gapp Names & registers
Also known as Hispaniella henekenii; Oncidium henekenii. (GBIF Backbone)
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Wikidata did not answer when this page was built, so the links it gives (POWO, IPNI, World Flora Online, Wikipedia) were not checked; any shown here are kept from an earlier build. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.The record
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
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