Cyrtochilum diceratum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin
Inflorescence of plant on Purace Volocano 3200 meters, June 2007
Photos by Jay Pfahl ©
EARLY
Common Name The Double Covered Cyrtochilum
Flower Size 1.88" [4.7 cm]
Found in southern Colombia, northern Ecuador and Peru? in open, wet cloud forests in scrub at elevations of 2800 to 3200 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a small pseudobulb enveloped completely by imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the narrow, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 13.5" [34 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence with 5" [12.5 cm] long, 2 flowered branches towards the bottom and is racemose towards the top and having prominent, ovate, concave, floral bracts.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum englerianum (Kraenzl.) Kraenzl. 1917; Cyrtochilum fallens (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917; *Oncidium diceratum Lindley 1855; Oncidium englerianum Kraenzl. 1916; Oncidium fallens Rchb.f. 1886
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 drawing fide;
Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as C fallens not drawing fide;
Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as C englerianum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 4 1961 as Oncidium fallens photo fide;
Orchids of Peru Vol 4 Schweinfurth 1961 as Oncidium diceratum;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 970 Dodson 1984 as Oncidium fallens drawing good;
Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide;
The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol IV Dodson 2003 as Oncidium diceratum drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance Bakers 2006;
Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 as C fallens;
Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 as C englerianum;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 as C englerianum drawing/photo fide
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