Cyrtochilum matangense (Bockemühl) Dalström 2001 Photo by Guido Deburghgraeve ©

Part SunCold Spring

Common Name The Matanga Cyrtochilum [refers to the Matanga Cordillera, a mountain range within Ecuador]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Loja Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2900 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with caespitose, oblong-ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 4 to 7 distichous sheaths with the uppermost leafbearing and carrying 1 to 2, apical, elliptic, conduplicate below into the petilolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect to suberect, paniculate, with spreading, slightly flexuous branches, several flowered inflorescence that is 5' [150 cm] long.

Synonyms *Odontoglossum matangense Bockemühl 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as Oncidium matangense photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide

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