| Oncidium altissimum | |
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| Illustration by Sarah Drake | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Oncidium |
| Species: | O. altissimum |
| Binomial name | |
| Oncidium altissimum (Jacq.) Sw. 1800 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Oncidium altissimum, Wydler's dancing-lady orchid, [2] is a species of orchid native to the West Indies (Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles), with an 18th-Century citation from Jamaica. [1] [3]
This name should not be confused with the illegitimate homonym Oncidium altissimum Lindl. 1833, now considered a synonym of O. baueri native to South America. [4] The true Oncidium altissimum was first described in 1760 by Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin with the name Epidendrum altissimum, citing Jamaica as the origin of the specimen he was describing . [3] Olof Swartz later transferred the species to Oncidium in 1800. [5]
