Cycnoches jarae Dodson & D.E.Benn. 1989 SECTION Heteranthae Photo by © Benjamin Collantes Meza
Female Flower Photos by © Lourens Grobler.
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Dodson
Common Name Jara's Cycnoches [Ecuadorian original collector of species]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 900 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with oblong-cylindric, widely oval in cross-section pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 5 to 13, membraneous, elliptic, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on 3 to 5, lateral, racemose to singly branched, pendulous, several flowered inflorecence.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0040 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;
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