Cycnoches chlorochilon Klotsch 1838 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photos courtesy of David Jubineau And His Bulbophyllum & Co. Website
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Common Name The Green-Lipped Cycnoches - in Venezuela "El Pelicano"
Flower Size 7" or less [17.5 cm]
This medium sized, epiphytic, hot to warm growing species is found from SE Panama, Colombia and Venezuela in semi-dense forests at elevations around 400 to 850 meters with fusiform, pseudobulbs enveloped by non-foliaceous sheaths and carrying 4 to 7, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms on an axillary, pendant, 3" [7.5 cm] long, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence arising from the leaf nodes just below the apex of the newest, mature, large, fusiform to conical pseudobulb all occuring in the late summer.
Synonyms Cycnoches ventricosum Bateman var chlorochilon [Klotsch] P.H.Allen 1952
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990;
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