Cyrtochilum funis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Cimicifera LindleyPhoto by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

LATE THROUGH

Common Name or Meaning The Rope-Like Cyrtochilum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in dense upper montane cloud forests at elevations of 2600 to 3600 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with ovate, slightly flattened pseudobulbs enveloped partially below by distichous sheaths becoming leaf bearing above and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly obovate, acute, becoming conduplicate below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter through fall on an axillary, erect, elongate to 24" [60cm] long, scandent, paniculate, wiry, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cyrtochilum scandens Kraenzl 1922; Dasyglossum funis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Königer & Schildh. 1994; Irenea funis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Romowicz 2006; Odontoglossum funis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Garay 1970; *Oncidium funis F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899;Trigonochilum funis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Senghas 1997

References W3 Tropicos, *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C scandens; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 953 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide

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