Cycnoches lehmannii Rchb. f. 1878
Another side view of female flower
Pseudobulbs Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Lehman's Cycnoches [German Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 5" [13 cm]
A caespitose epiphyte with large cylindric psuedobulbs found in Nortwestern Peru and Western Ecuador in seasonally dry forests at 70 to 1400 meters with elongate, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying oblong-ligulate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves where it blooms as a female on a 4" [10 cm] long, few fragrant flowered raceme arising from the upper nodes of the mature to leafless pseudobulb and occuring in the spring and summer. Different than chlorochilon in having very flat flowers, a rounder lip without concavity on the sides, nodding 2 or less flowers and large 4" size. Anyone that has any more concrete imformation could gladly pass it on to me. I bought it in Lima Peru and the Pseudobulbs are about 14" tall. I have not watered it since I got it in May 2000 and it started to spike by June 1 and only opened yesterday June 30th. The second year it bloomed in February and April and I saw male flowers for the first time. They are very similar to Cycnoches ventricosum.
Synonyms Luedemannia lehmanni Rchb.f 1880
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 Photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 3 1959 photo; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 039 Dodson drawing fide; AOS Bulletin VOl 51 No 8 1982 photo; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 3 1994 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruvioarum Plate 226 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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