Cischweinfia dasyandra (Rchb. f.) Dressler & N.H. Williams 1970 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of J&L Orchids and their Orchid Homepage and Charles Marden Fitch

Common Name The Hirsute Pollina Cischweinfia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in premontane forests at elevations of 300 to 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oblong, laterally compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped by several, distichous, imbricating, conduplicate, lower leafless and upper leafbearing sheaths carrying a single, apical, linear lanceolate leaf that is conduplicate at the base which blooms in the summer on a short, basal, somewhat pendulous, 1 3/5" to 2 3/4" [4 to 7 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured growth.

Synonyms Leucohyle dasyandra (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920; *Trichopilia dasyandra Rchb. f. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1883 as Trichopilia dasyandra drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970 photo as Trichopilia dasyandra; *AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 11 1970 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 7 1982 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 2 2003; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1413 Atwood 1992 drawing ok; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide

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