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Dancing Doll Orchid

Gomesa flexuosa

Also called Dancing Ladies Orchid, Golden Shower

Dancing Doll Orchid
Photo: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY 2.5
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
E. & S. Brazil to NC. Argentina
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Gomesa flexuosa is a species of orchid found from eastern and southern Brazil to north-central Argentina. It was formerly within the genus Oncidium until a phylogenetic study published in 2009 transferred it and some other Oncidium species to Gomesa.

Other Gomesa plants

Gomesa bicolor · Dancing Ladies · Gomesa blanchetii · Gomesa ciliata · Gomesa concolor · Gomesa cornigera · Gomesa crispa · Gomesa croesus · Gomesa dasytyle · Gomesa echinata · Gomesa forbesii · Gomesa gardneri

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gomesa flexuosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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