Cyrtochilum murinum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Cimicifera Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Photo Website
Inflorescence Photo by Guido Deburghgraeve ©
Inflorescence with color form Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler.
Common Name The Mouse-Like Cyrtochilum [refers to the small flowers]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1700 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with clustered, slightly compressed, wrinkled pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, apical, strap-shaped, acute, keeled, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on an axillary, somewhat erect, shortly paniculate, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with all the flowers in the apical 1/3 and only 3 to 6 flowers per branch.
This species, C diodon, C porrigens and C umbonatum are all very similar and may all be in one variable species complex but I have kept them separate for now.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum turpe (Kraenzl.) Kraenzl. 1917; Oncidium brachystachys Kraenzl. 1922; *Oncidium murinum Rchb.f. 1876; Oncidium turpe Kraenzl. 1916; Trigonochilum murinum (Rchb.f.) Königer & Schildh. 1994; Trigonochilum turpe (Kraenzl.) Königer & Schildl. 1994
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Oncidium murinum drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Oncidium murinum drawing fide; The Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Oncidium murinum drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as Oncidium murinum photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidium murinumdrawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium murinum; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 photo/drawing fide
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