Cycnoches christensonii D.E.Benn.1998 SECTION Heteranthae

Inflorescence Photo by the Orchid Societies Council of Victoria Inc. Web Site

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Common Name or Meaning Christenson's Cycnoches [American Botanist current]

Flower Size

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1400 meters as a small t omedium szied, warm growing epiphyte with cyclindric-fusiform pseudobulbs carrying numerous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminte, thin-textured, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later spring on 1 to 3, arching-pendant, to 24" [to 60 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 430 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide;

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