Cyrtochilum orgyale (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin
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Common Name The One-Fathom Long Cyrtochilum [refers to the elongate inflorescence]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Colombia and Venezuela at elevations around 1800 to 3400 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with ellipsoid to elliptic-ovoid, ancipitous, well spaced pseudobulbs completely enveloped by several, distichous, imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute to subacute, conduplicate and attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, axillary, 8" to 200" [20cm to 5 m] long, paniculate to occasionally racemose, each widely spaced branch to 20" [50 cm] long, several to many flowered, inflorescence carrying showy flowers.
Synonyms Oncidium claesii Rolfe1906; *Oncidium orgyale Rchb.f. & Warsz.1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Oncidium orgyale; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 5 Foldats 1970 as Oncidium carderi drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 5 Foldats 1970 as Oncidium orygale drawing good; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 as Oncidium carderi drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 5 1974 as Oncidium orgyale photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium orgyale drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 60 No 2 1996 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidium orgyale drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as C undulatum drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas de Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance Bakers 2006; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 #5 2008 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
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