Cycnoches guttulatum Schlechter 1922 Photo by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

Common Name The Small Spotted Cycnoches

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet tropical forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped by clasping leaf sheaths and carrying conspicuously nerved, plicate, ovate-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the summer on a pendant, 12" [30 cm] long, to 12 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

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ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 646 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide;

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