Cycnoches haagii Barb. Rodr. 1882 SECTION Eucycnoches
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Common Name Haag's Cycnoches [German Nursuryman 1900's]
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.5 cm]
Found in French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests on dead trees over streams at elevations of 50 to 1000 meters with a cylindric, tapering apically pseudobulb enveloped by clasping, leaf-bearing sheaths and elliptic, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, deciduous leaves that are channeled towards the base and are graduated in size form the base, which blooms on a pendulous to arching, 8" [20 cm] long, several flowered raceme with small floral bracts that are shorter than the ovary, all arising from near the apex of a mature leafed pseudobulb occuring in the winter and spring in cultivation and carrying fragrant, non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Cycnoches versicolor Rchb. f. 1888
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942 as C versicolor drawing fide; Orchids of Peru Vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats1970 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 8 1983 photo fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 12 1987 photo good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0039 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0317 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 10 1993 postage stamp fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson/Escobar 1993 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 7 1997 photo fide; Orchid Digerst Vol 64 #1 2000 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 620 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 2002 drawing/photo fideFlora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideae Part 2 Pridgeron, Cribb, Chase & Rasmusen 2009 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide;
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