Cyrtochilum monachicum (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

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Common Name The Monk-Like Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in western Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2230 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with thick, fusiform pseudobulbs subtended by several distichous, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, lanceolate, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal through the leaf sheaths, 120" [3m] long, branched, flexuous, several to many flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION Often Cited as a synonym of C annulare, I feel that if the 2 photos are correct and they appear to be [I definitely trust the Posasdas to know] then they are not synonyms and are here presented as two species.

Synonyms Cyrtochilum lucescens (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl 1917; Cyrtochilum monachicum (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1917; Oncidium lucescens Rchb.f. 1887; *Oncidium monachicum Rchb. f. 1883

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing ok; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C lucescens; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 184 Dodson 1980 as Oncidium monachicum drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Cyrtochilum annulare incorrect

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