Cyrtochilum pusillum (C.Schweinf.) Dalström 2001 TYPE Drawing by Schweinfurth

Common Name The Small Flowered Cyrtochilum

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an ascending bracteate rhizome giving rise to basally thickened, attenuate above pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by linear, imbricating foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, slender, suberect, linear, racemose, to 6" [15 cm] long, 3 to 9 flowered inflorescence carrying small, pure white flowers.

This species differs from C vasquezii by having pure white flowers and less connate lateral sepals, floral bracts longer than the ovary and a thicker column. C vasquezii has nearly completely connate lateral sepals, shorter than the ovary floral bracts, a more slender column and magenta marked flowers.

Synonyms *Buesiella pusilla C.Schweinf. 1952; Rusbyella pusilla (C.Schweinf.) Garay 1968

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 drawing as Buesiella pusilla drawing fide; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 203 Dodson 1989 as Buesiella pusilla not = C vasquezii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996 as Buesiella pussilum drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance Bakers 2006;

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