!Cyanaeorchis arundinae (Rchb. f.) Barb. Rodr. 1877

Plant and Flower in situ Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name The Reed-Like Cyanaeorchis

Flower Size to 2.2" [to 5.5 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janiero, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial in sloping meadows prone to seasonal flooding with an erect stem enveloped by several, elongate, tubular, acuminate sheaths and carrying 2, stem clasping, plicate, conduplicate, acute, acuminate, linear leaves that blooms in the winter in nature on an erect, terminal, 16 to 24" [40 to 60 cm] long, few to several [2 to 8], successively single flowered inflorescence. This orchid emerges anew each year to produce a new stem and leaves and to at maturity set flowers and seed only to die back and disappear until the next years new growth..

Synonyms Cyrtopodium yauaperyense Krnzl. 1911; *Eulophia arundinae Rchb. f. 1849; Graphorchis arundinae (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Lichterveldia lindleyi Lem. 1855; Odontoglossum citrosmum Lindley 1842; Odontoglossum pendulum [La Llave & Lex.] Batem. 1888; Oncidium citrosmum [Lindley]Beer 1854; Oncidium galeottianum Drap. ?

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 1/2 1993 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 10 1998 photo;