Cyrtochilum scabiosum Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. 1917 Photos by © K. Senghas and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium

Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Part shade Coldspring

Common Name The Scabiosa-Like Cyrtochilum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 2600 to 3600 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with ovate, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 to 2 pairs of leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, long, twinning, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb primary and secondary branches

Synonyms Dasyglossum scabiosum (Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl.) Königer & Schildh. 1994; Irenea scabiosa (Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl.) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Romowicz 2006; Odontoglossum scabiosum Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. 1917; Trigonochilum scabiosum (Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl.) Senghas 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922; Orchid Species Culture Odontoglossum/Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006

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