Cirrhaea longiracemosa Hoehne 1934 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Flower Close up Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

LATER

Common Name The Long Raceme Cirrhaea

Flower Size 1.25" [3.1 cm]

Found around Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina and Parana' Brazil as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid-oblong, clear green, glausous, slightly tetragonal, becoming sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by pale sheaths and carrying a single, apical, plicate, 5 to 7 nerved, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on several, racemose, limply pendant, 20" [50 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasiliense Pabst & Dungs 1976

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