Cyrtochilum viminale (Rchb.f.) Dalström 2001

Photo by © Guido Deburghgraeve and The Lankesteriana Website

Common Name The Rod-Like Cyrtochilum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 3000 to 3600 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with caespitose, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 5 to 7 distichous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, apical, erect, linear-elliptic to obovate, acute, conduplicate below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, erect to slightly arching, to 4' [120 cm] long, paniculate, with widely spaced, 2" [5 cm] long, 8 flowered side branches, many flowered inflorescence with adpressed, scale-like bracts.

Similar to C sonnemarkii but it differs in the gibbous and convex lip with a carnose and bright yellow to orange callus, versus a basally straight, slightly elongated, smooth, dorsally furrowed and bifurcated callus of the same ivory white color as the lip lamina for C. viminale

Synonyms Dasyglossum viminale (Rchb.f.) Königer & Schildh. 1994; Irenea viminale (Rchb.f.) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Romowicz 2006; *Odontoglossum viminale Rchb.f. 1885; Trigonochilum viminale (Rchb.f.) Senghas 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as Oncidium viminale photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006; ; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): Dalstrom 2015 drawing/photo fide

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