Cyrtochilum cocciferum (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Cimicifera Lindley Photo by © Stig Dalstrom

Another Flower Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Found in Ecuador and Peru as a cold growing epiphyte

Synonyms *Oncidium cocciferum Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854; Trigonochilum cocciferum (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Königer & Schildh. 1994;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;\ Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Oncidium cocciferum; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Oncidium cocciferum; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 drawing good; Orchids of Peru Vol 4 Schweinfurth 1961 as Oncidium cocciferum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 471 Dodson 1982 as Oncidium cocciferum not = C tanii; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0123 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Oncidum cocciferum drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 33-6 1997 as Trigonochilum cocciferum drawing fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 C cocciferum drawing hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium cocciferum photo not; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium cocciferum; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 4 Kolanowska and Szlachetko 2016 as Trigonochilum cocciferum drawing good;

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