Cyrtochilum sodiroi [Schltr.] Dalstrom 2020
Photo by Sebastian Viera-Uribe and his Imgram Images by Utricseb Webste
Photo by © Jay Pfahl plant grown by Arturo Carrillo.
Drawing by © Dodson.
Common Name or Meaning Sodiro's Cyrtochilum [Ecuadorian Orchid collector and Enthusiast earlier 1900's]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in southern Colombia and Ecuador as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to ovoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, erect, elliptic, acute to acuminate, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on 1 to 2, axillary, erect, to 28" [70 cm] long, elongate, paniculate, several branched, branches to 4" [10 cm] long, each few flowered, rebranching, to 2" [5 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered, many flowered inflorescence.
Pers Comm. Stig Dalstrom: " Cyrtochilum ramosissimum (and if we are going to accept C. sodiroi as a separate taxon. I am hesitant!) have spreading basal lobes of the lip (away from the column) but with erect callus keels that touch the ventral side of the column. Cyrtochilum ramosissimum is only reported from Venezuela so far, has white flowers with purplish spots and streaks, and has slightly serrated basal callus ridges that reach the outside of the ventral flanks of the column (barely). Cyrtochilum sodiroi (ined.) has very smooth and entire callus ridges that either just touch the ventral side of the column or are between the ventral flanks of the column. Cyrtochilum sodiroi generally has white flowers spotted and streaked with purple to various degrees, or pale yellow which makes the spots and streaks turn brown. The differences between ramosissimum and sodiroi is so subtle that I am not sure that it makes sense to keep them apart as separate taxa. But it’s necessary to point out the differences though."
Synonyms *Odontoglossum sodiroi Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as Odontoglossum sodiroi; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 966 Dodson 1984 as Odontoglossum sodiroi drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as Odontoglossum ramossisimum photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as Odontoglossum ramossisimum not photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 as C ramosissimum photo/drawing fide; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroideae I Jimenenz 2014 photo fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 4 Kolanowska and Szlachetko 2016 as Odontoglossum ramosissimum drawing good/photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 as C ramosissimum drawing/photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 as Odontoglossum sodiroi drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 20(1): 21–29. 2020 photo/drawing fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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