Cycnoches peruvianum Rolfe 1891 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz Plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Female Flower Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name The Peruvian Cycnoches

Flower Size 1 1/2" long to 2 1/2" across

Found in Ecuador and Peru as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte from wet montane forests at elevations of 450 to 900 meters with elongate, cylindric, composed of seveal nodes pseudobulb that is enveloped completely by several, scarious, foliaceous sheaths and carrying thin, plicate, distichous, deciduous leaves that blooms mostly in the fall and winter en situ with an arcuate to pendant, 1 1/2' to 2 1/2' [45 to 75 cm] long, many flowered male or few flowered female, racemose inflorescence that arise from the leaf nodes near the apex of the newest, mature, fusiform to conical pseudobulb.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 420 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0042 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson/Escobar 1993 drawing/photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson/Escobar 1993 as C thurstonorum drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 3 1994 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 as C thurstonianum; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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