Cycnoches cooperi Rolfe 1913 SECTION Heteranthae
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by © Stephen Piper
Photo by © Eric Hunt>
Another Flower? Thin sepals and petals
Photo by © H Teuscher
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Common Name Cooper's Cycnoches [English Plant Collector 1900's]
Flower Size 3 1/2" [9 cm]
Found in northern Peru and Brazil as a small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte of wet montane forests at elevations of 400 to 800 meters with an ovoid-cylindric pseudobulb concealed by deciduous, leaf bearing sheaths and has lanceolate, channeled, acuminate leaves that graduate in size from the base and blooms on an axillary, pendant, 10" [25 cm] long, few to many flowered, racemose, inflorescence with several close, tubular bracts and small ovate, acute, brown floral bracts that are shorter than the ovary, carrying showy, fleshy, chocolate scented flowers arising from near the apex of the newly matured, leafy pseudobulb.
Sometimes said to be a synonym of Cycnoches pendactylon but the color differences and lack of patterning are stunningly difffernt.
Synonyms Cycnoches cooperi subsp. ayacuchoensis D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1998; Cycnoches cooperi var. villenae G.F.Carr & A.Prieto 2002; Cycnoches pentadactylon var. cooperi (Rolfe) Pabst 1962
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942; Orchids of Peru Vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 7 1962 photo fide to the another flower? photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 8 1963 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 8 1963 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 3 3 No 1 1964 photo fide; Orchids of Peru 1st supplement Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0038 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; Orchid Digerst Vol 64 #1 2000 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 431 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 618 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 6 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #1 2010 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #3 2012 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014 as C cooperi ssp ayacuchoense Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #8 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #11 2019 photo fide
Cycnoches cooperi var. villenae G.F.Carr & A.Prieto 2002
Photo by Sylvain Burgaud
Color variety of the previous orchid
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