!Cycnoches loddigesii Lindl. 1832 Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz and The Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name Loddiges' Cycnoches [English Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
Found in French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia and Northern Brazil as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing, epiphytic orchid with tall, cylindric pseodobulbs carrying several, oblong-lanceolate, plicate, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an axillary, pendant, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence with up to 10 fragrant, male or female flowers arising from the leaf nodes near the apex of the newest, mature, fusiform to conical psuedobulbs and occuring in the late summer.
Synonyms Cycnoches cucullata Lindley 1837; Cycnoches loddigesii var leuchochilum Hkr. 1841; Cycnoches loddigesii var purpureum Rchb.f 1857
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970;
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