Cyrtochilum mendax (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by © Harry Zelenko and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Deceiving Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1600 to 2200 meters as a cool to cold growing epiphyte that blooms in the summer on an axillary, wiry, paniculate, few flowered branches, to 20" [50 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION I am not sure of this determination so please use with caution. It does not agree even closely with Kranzlin's 1917 drawing so I have to be concerned. It is a match for what Dodson 2010 says is C mendax so we have a dilemma here until I can see Reichenbachs drawing or better yet his type.

Synonyms *Oncidium mendax Rchb.f. 1886

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing hmm; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium mendax photo Not = C portillae; Orchid Species Culture; Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo not

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