Cirrhaea fusco-lutea Lindley 1833
Photo by © Lauro de Araujo Silva Neto
Plant in situ in Boia Ceia Brazil Elevation 30 meters
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Deep Yellow Cirrhaea
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southeastern Brazil in the state of Sao Paulo in the Atlantic Rain Forest at elevations around 500 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species with clustered, ovoid, dark green to yellow, furrowed and ridged pseudobulbs carrying a solitary, apical, broadly lanceolate, petiolate, dark green, glabrous, thick, obscurely plicate leaf that blooms in the winter on a pendant, long, basal inflorescence carrying up to 20, fragrant, shorter lived flowers.
Synonyms Cirrhaea saccata Lindl. 1839; Scleropteris flava Scheidw. 1839
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as C saccata; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C saccata drawing fide; Orchidaceae Braziliense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 as C saccata drawing fide; An Illustrated Encyclpedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 37-8 1999 as C sacatta photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Orchidaceae Brasiliense Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #3 2013 as C sacata photo fide;
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