Cycnoches herrenhusanum Jenny & G.A. Romero 1991 SECTION Heteranthae

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

Another Plant Photos courtesy of Laura Piper

Female Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name Herrenhus' Cycnoches [The Herrenhus {Hanover Germany} Botanical Garden Cycnoches]

Flower Size 2.8" [7 cm]

Found on the Pacific coast of southern Colombia and northern Ecuador at elevations of 50 to 210 [800] meters and is a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with spindle-shaped, narrow, close set pseudobulbs carrying 6 to 7, evenly distributed along the stem, plicate, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the leaf bearing sheath and blooms in the winter on a pendulous, 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with closely spaced, non-resupinate flowers .

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 6 1999 photo; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide;

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