!Cybebus grandis Garay 1978
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
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EARLY 
Common Name or Meaning The Large Cybebus
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Risaralda, Valle de Cauca and Cauca departments of Colombia and western Ecuador in extremely wet marshy areas at elevations around 1500 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a rosette of basal, fleshy, ovate-elliptical, obtuse, narrowing below into the long channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle provided with a single sheathing bract, to 20" [50 cm] long overall, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying large, white, resupinate flowers.
"C grandis can easily be separated from all other Colombian species by the large flowers which are more or less sinusoidally bent in outline." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bot. Mus. Leafl. 26: 15 Garay 1978
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing/photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 drawing/photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador 225 [2] Orchidaceae Dodson 2005 drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 172 fig 126 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 173 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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