Cyrtochilum zebrinum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1922 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin
Photo by © Guido Deburghgraeve
Santa Marta Colombia Form Inflorescence
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
LATE
EARLY 
Common Name The Zebra-Like Cyrtochilum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Venezuela in more open forests at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a just large sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with a terete, woody, tough rhizome giving rise to gree, slightly compressed, smooth to slightly wrinkled pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, apical, erct to arching, lanceolate, acute, thin yet stiff, keeled, conduplicate below into the stiff, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a 6'8" to 10'2" [2 to 3 m] long, paniculate, numerous branched, each to 8" [20 cm] long, sometimes to 16" [40 cm] long, each to 8 flowered, sometimes shortly secondarily branched to 3 flowered, purple spotted, scandent, to 50 flowered inflorescence with triangular, adpressed, yerllow brown bracts.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum engelii (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917 ; *Odontoglossum zebrinum Rchb.f. 1850; Oncidium engelii Rchb.f. 1876; Oncidium zebrinum (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853 as Oncidium zebrinum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Oncidium zebrinum; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Oncidium zebrinum drawing good; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as C engelii drawing ok; Orchids of Peru Vol 4 Schweinfurth 1961 as Oncidium zebrinum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Oncidium zebrinum drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as Oncidium zebrinum; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Oncidium zebrinum; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970 as Oncidum engelii; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970 as Oncidium zebrinum drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 as Oncidium engelii drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium engelii drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium zebrinum drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 562 Dodson drawing fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidum engelii drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidium zebrinum drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance Bakers 2006; ; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideaea Part 2 Pridgeon, Chase, Cribb & Rasmusen 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #4 2011 Photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide
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