Cycnoches haagii Barb. Rodr. 1882 Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden Copyright ©

Female Flower Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

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Common Name Haag's Cycnoches [German Nursuryman 1900's]

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.5 cm]

Found From French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests on dead trees over streams at elevations of 200 to 800 meters with a cylindric, tapering apically pseudobulb enveloped by clasping, leaf-bearing sheaths and elliptic, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, deciduous leaves that are channeled towards the base and are graduated in size form the base, which blooms on a pendulous to arching, 8" [20 cm]long, several flowered raceme with small floral bracts that are shorter than the ovary, all arising from near the apex of a mature leafed pseudobulb occuring in the winter and spring in cultivation.

Synonyms Cycnoches versicolor Rchb. f. 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0039 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson/Escobar 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 620 Bennett & Christenson 2001