Cycnoches chlorochilon Klotsch 1838 SECTION Eucycnoches Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photos courtesy of David Jubineau And His Bulbophyllum & Co. Website
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Common Name The Green-Lipped Cycnoches - in Venezuela "El Pelicano"
Flower Size 7" or less [17.5 cm]
This medium sized, epiphytic, hot to warm growing species is found from SE Panama, Colombia and Venezuela in semi-dense forests at elevations around 400 to 850 meters with fusiform, pseudobulbs enveloped by non-foliaceous sheaths and carrying 4 to 7, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms on an axillary, pendant, 3" [7.5 cm] long, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence arising from the leaf nodes just below the apex of the newest, mature, large, fusiform to conical pseudobulb all occuring in the late summer and fall.
Synonyms Cycnoches ventricosum Bateman var chlorochilon [Klotsch] P.H.Allen 1952
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 10 1957 drawing; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 4 1963 photo; AOS Bulletin VOl 32 No 8 1963 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; AOS Bulletin VOl 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Orquideologia Vol 13 No 3 1979 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 8 1983 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo;
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