Cyrtochilum suarezii (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) J.M.H.Shaw 2014
Photo by © Guido Deburghgraeve and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Bennett & Christenson
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Common Name Suarez's Cyrtochilum [Peruvian discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Huancavelica department of Peru in cold wet cloud forests at elevations of 2900 meters as a small sized, cold growing subcaespitose epiphyte with narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear, acute apically, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an axillary, erect, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence. color=purple>Synonyms Buesiella suarezii D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001; *Rusbyella suarezii D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 753 Bennett & Christenson 2001 as Rusbyella suarezii drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Buesiella suarezii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Rusbyella suarezii; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014 as Rusbyella suarezii;
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