Cycnoches pachydactylon Schlechter 1922 SECTION Heteranthae TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter/ published in Mansfeld [1931: t. 61, nr. 243 and The Epidendra Website

Drawing Drawing by © Hamer

Common Name The Broad Fingered Cycnoches

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua and Panama in wet lowland forests at elevations around 180 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with cylindrical, elongate pseudobulbs carrying elliptic, acute, 3 nerved, articulate below into the sheath leaves that blooms in the summer on an arcuate, pendent, to 32" [80 cm] long, to 35 flowered [male] inflorescence.

Part of the C egertonianum complex and often cited as a synonym of but differs in the form of the 8 lip processes that are short, broad and heavily clavate as well as the basal ligule of the triangularmidlobe of the lip is very short, broad and faintly three lobed apically.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 57. Panama Schlechter 1922; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 647 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Cycnoches pachydactylon photo good;

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