Cyrtochilum betancurii Giraldo & Dalström 2012 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin

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Common Name Betancur's Cyrtochilum [Colombian Orchid Botanist current]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at eleavations of 1600 to 1800 meters as a large sized, cool growing epiphyte with a creeping, bracteate rhizome giving rise to distant, ovoid, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 4 to 6, distichous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, apical, erect, obovate, acute, conduplicate below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an axillary, erect then wiry, stright to loosely flexuous, paniculaet, to 112" [2.8 m] long, basal branch longest, several, widely spaced, short, few flowered side branches, to many flowered inflorescence with adpressed, scale like floral bracts and carrying stellate, showy flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *LANKESTERIANA 12(3): 137—142. Giraldo & Dalström 2012 2012 Drawing/photo fide

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