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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Oncidium |
| Species: | O. altissimum
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| Oncidium altissimum (Jacq.) Sw. 1800
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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]
References
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- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Oncidium altissimum (Jacq.) Sw.
- ^ NRCS. "Oncidium altissimum". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ^ a b Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin. 1760. Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum, quas in insulis Caribaeis 30.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Oncidium altissimum Lindl.
- ^ Swartz, Olof. 1800. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 21: 240.