Cycnoches herrenhusanum Jenny & G.A. Romero 1991 SECTION Heteranthae
Photo by David Jubineau Copyright ©
Photos by Laura Piper
Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Common Name Herrenhus' Cycnoches [The Herrenhus {Hanover Germany} Botanical Garden Cycnoches]
Flower Size 2.8" [7 cm]
Found on the Pacific coast of southern Colombia and northern Ecuador at elevations of 50 to 210 [800] meters and is a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with spindle-shaped, narrow, close set pseudobulbs carrying 6 to 7, evenly distributed along the stem, plicate, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the leaf bearing sheath and blooms in the winter on a pendulous, 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with closely spaced, non-resupinate flowers .
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 7 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 6 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digerst Vol 64 #1 2000 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 2002 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #2 2002 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #2 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #8 2007 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #3 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #9 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Of Men and Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 photo fide;
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