Cyrtidiorchis alata (Lindl.) Rauschert 1982
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Side View Photo by © Guenther Gerlach
Photo by Danny Lentz ©, Photo by Jay Pfahl ©
Pollinated flower? Another Angle Pollinated flower? Plant in situ Peru Pollinated flower? Photos by © Rebecca Repasky and Atrium Biodiversity Information site Website Common Name The Winged Cyrtidiorchis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in southwestern Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2600 meters as a large to giant sized, cold growing epiphyte with 2 growth forms, the first, a short rhizome giving rise to large, ovoid, lightly compressed, deciduous pseudobulbs with roots and carrying 2 apical, oblong ligulate, obtuse, conduplicate at the subpetiolate base leaves and the second, a branching stem with no pseudobulbs and no roots carrying deciduous, foliaceous, oblong-ligulate, acute bracts all along the length with persistent sheathing bracts that blooms in the spring on an axillary, subsessile, .8" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Camaridium alatum Lindl. 1845; Chrysocycnis glumaceum L.O.Williams 1940; Cyrtidium alatum (Lindl.) Garay 1962;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Studies in American orchids VI Canadian Journal of Botany 34(2):241-260 Garay 1962 Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 422 Dodson 1982 as Cyrtidium alatum drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 photo not = C stumpflei; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as C stumpflei not photo fide; Flora of Ecuador #76 225 [2] Orchidacaeae AA - Cyrtidiorchis Dodson Luer 2005 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide;
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