Cyrtochilum tricorne Dalström & Ruíz Pérez 2012 SECTION Cimicifera Lindley
Photos by © Stig Dalström
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Common Name The Three Horned Cyrtochilum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Cusco department of Peru at elevations of 2000 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with caespitose, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 6 to 8 distichous sheaths and carrying 2 apical, erect, elliptic to obovate, narrowly acute to aacuminate apically, conduplicate below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on 1 to 2, axillary, erecct to arching, panicle to 52" [130 cm] long, many, widely spaced, alnost striaght to flexuous, 3 to 6 flowered side branches, many flowered inflorescence with adpressed, scale like, ventrally pubescent floral bracts and carrying stellate flowers with deflexed segments.
Similar to C cimiciferum but differs from both most in the distinct, three horned apex of the column, but also in the much smaller floral bracts and the pandurate lip.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lankesteriana 12: 151 Dalström & Ruíz Pérez 2012 Drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014
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