Cyrtochilum grandiflorum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin

Photo by © Guido Deburghgraeve and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Large Flowered Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 1.5" [3.8 cm]

Found in northwestern Venezuela and Colombia at elevations of 2400 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single ? lanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an axillary, twining,short, well spaced, few flowered branches, to 40" [100 cm] long overall, paniculate, brances short, few flowered, 8" [20 cm] between each, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Oncidium grandiflorum Rchb.f. 1881;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing ok; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance 2006; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide

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