Cycnoches pentadactylon Lindley 1843 SECTION Heteranthae

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Female Flower Photo By Erica Moron de Abad © and Her Biorquidtropic Peru Lab Web Page

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Common Name The Five Fingered Cycnoches

Flower Size to almost 4" Across [to 10 cm across]

This epiphytic, medium sized, hot to warm growing species comes from the Amazon basin of Brazil and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 750 to 1000 meters with a fusiform, pseudobulb enveloped by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths with deciduous, elliptic, petiolate, acuminate leaves and the flowers pictured here are the male form that appear in the spring and summer on a 2 1/2 to 12" [6.75 to 30 cm] long, arching to pendant, racemose many flowered inflorescence with the fragrant flowers arising from the leaf nodes near the apex of the newest, mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Cycnoches amesianum Sandw. ?; Cycnoches espiritusantense Brade 1942

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C espiritusanctensis drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 1 1964 photo; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 9 1983 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0041 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 5 1999 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 621 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide for male/female flower

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