Cyrtochilum meirax (Rchb. f.) Dalström 2001 SECTION Cimicifera
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Common Name The Enchanting Cyrtochilum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.5 cm]
Found in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the Leeward Islands, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in humid forests at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with bright green, oval, compressed psuedobulbs carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse leaf with an attenuate and conduplicate base that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a fractiflex, 3 angled at base in cross-section, to 8" [20 cm] long, racemose or paniculate inflorescence arising from the leaf sheath of a mature pseudobulb that is compressed apically and carries several, successively opening, long-lasting flowers.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum dodianum (Ackerman & Chiron) Ackerman 2001; Oncidium alata Cogn. 1910; Oncidium dodianum Ackerman & Chiron 2001; Oncidium meirax Rchb. f. 1854; Trigonochilum alatum ( Cogn. ) Königer & H.Schildhauer 1994; Trigonochilum dodianum (Ackerman & Chiron) Senghas 2001; Trigonochilum meirax (Rchb. f.) Königer & Schildhauer 1994
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853 as Oncidium meirax; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Oncidium meirax drawing; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Oncidium alata; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium meirax drawing fide; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium alatum; Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 as Oncidium meirax; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Oncidium meirax drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 5 Foldats 1970 as Oncidium meirax drawing fide; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 as Oncidium meirax drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium meirax drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 183 Dodson 1980 as Oncidium mierax drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 11 1981 photo as Oncidium meirax photo good; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as O sp #3973 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 as Oncidium meirax photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 11 1995 as Oncidium meirax photo fide; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 as Oncidium meirax drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 33-6 1997 as Trigonochilum meirax; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = O meirax; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidium meirax drawing fide; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Trigonidium dodianum; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002 drawing ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium meirax drawing/photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium meirax; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium/Odontoglossum alliance Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Orquideas de la Republica Dominicana Y Haiti Fernandez 2007 as Cyrtochilum doddianum photo hmm; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 as Trigonochilum meirax drawing/photo good; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroideae I Jimenenz 2014 photo fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 4 Kolanowska and Szlachetko 2016 as Trigonidium meirax drawing/photos fide; Orquideas Del Valle De Aburra Medellin Colombia COS 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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