Cyrtopodium andersonii (Lamb. ex Andrews) R. Br. 1813 Photo by © Patricia Harding
Photos courtesy of David Jubineau And His Bulbophyllum & Co. Website
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Common Name Anderson's Cyrtopodium [Swedish Orchid Collector In Brazil early 1800's]
Flower Size 1 3/4" [4 cm]
Found in Florida, Cuba , Trinidad & Tobago and the Windwards as well as French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Brazil on sandy rocky savannahs at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters as a giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with cane-like pseudobulbs with clasping leaf sheaths and blooms on a basal, elongate, paniculate, to 5' 11" [to 200 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence that arises with a new growth and has fragrant flowers occuring in the winter and spring.
Synonyms *Cymbidium andersonii Lamb. ex Andrews 1811; Cyrtopodium andersonii var. flavescens (Cogn.) Cogn. 1901; Cyrtopodium flavescens Cogn. 1895; Cyrtopodium roraimense L.C.Menezes 1999
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1959 as C engelii not = C andersonii drawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing ok; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974; Orchids of Venezuela Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 not = C andersonii; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = C andersonii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 3 1995 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 7 1996 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 9 1996 photo; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003
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