Cyrtochilum incarum Kraenzl. 1922 TYPE Drawing by © Stig Dalström


Common Name The Incan Cyrtochilum
Flower Size 1.6 [4 cm]
Found in central Peru in cool wet forests in dense scrubby vegetation at elevations around 1750 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a long, straggling, ascending, woody with age rhizome giving rise to ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 or so shortly foliaceous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, conduplicate basally, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on anaxilalry, erect, slghtly fractiflex, peduncel to 20" [50 cm] long, rachis to 3' [90 cm] long, severa to many shortly brranched, each branch 1 to 6 flowered, many flowered inflorescence .
Synonyms Oncidium incarum (Kraenzl.) C.Schweinf. 1949
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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