Cyrtochilum leopoldianum (Rolfe) Kraenzl 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin
Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and Orchids by Gary Yong Gee Website
Drawing by Lucien Linden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name Leopold's Cyrtochilum [Belgian King late 1800's]
Flower Size 1.6" [to 4 cm]
Found in Colombia and Peru in transitional forests in between savannah woods and upland, evergreen woods at elevations of 1300 to 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a long creeping rhizome, ovoid-oblong to ovoid-cylindrical pseudobulbs basally enveloped by several pairs of imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying 1 or 2 apical, oblanceolate, acute, gradually conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms on a scandent, 100" [2.5 meters] long, many branched towards the apex, to 5" [12.5 cm] long each branch, many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum villenaorum Christenson 2002; Oncidium leopoldi "Rolfe" ex God.-Leboeuf 1890; Oncidium leopoldianum Rolfe 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Oncidium leopoldianum drawing fide; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 drawing ok; Orchids of Peru Vol 4 Schweinfurth 1961 as Oncidium leopoldianum; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 as C villenaorum drawing fide; Orchids Vol 71: No 7 pg 616 2002 as C villenaorum photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 as C villenaorum photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance Bakers 2006; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 1 2008 as C villenaorum photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 as C villenaorum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 as C villenaorum photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideaea Part 2 Pridgeon, Chase, Cribb & Rasmusen 2009 as C villenaroum photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #4 2011 as C villenaorum Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014
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