Cirrhaea loddigesii Lindley 1832
Photo by © Paulo Noronha and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Lindley The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Loddiges' Cirrhaea [English Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in southern and southeastern Brazil with ovate, longitudinally ridged pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 7 nerved leaf that blooms in the summer on a pendant, many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cirrhaea obtusata Lindl. 1837; Cirrhaea pallida Lindl. 1837; Cirrhaea viridipurpurea Lodd.1833
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR as C loddigesii; *Edwards's Bot. Reg. 18: t. 1538. 1833 as C loddigesii; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as C loddigesii drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 as C loddigesii drawing hmm/photo good; Orquideas Livro Documantal Machado 2008 as C loddigesii photo good; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideae part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2009 as C loddigesii photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #3 2013 photo fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Espirito Santo Brazil Vol 4 Chiron & Bolsanello 2014 drawing/photo not = C seidelii; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 drawing fide;
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