Cyrtochilum cimiciferum ( Rchb.f. ) S.Dalström 2001 SECTION Cimicifera Lindley
Column and Lip detail another angle Photos courtesy of © Guido Deburghgraeve
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
Common Name The Bug Carrying Cyrtochilum
Flower Size .6" [1.6 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador near Quito, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1850 to 2250 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with ovate or elliptic ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into a conduplicate, slight petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a basal, very long, many flowered, paniculate inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with a few widely spaced, branches and carrying many widely spaced flowers.
Distinguished from others by the wiry inflorescence with conspicuous, rounded spathaceous floral bracts and smallish yellow and brown flowers with a stout column usually equipped with minute erect apical auricles.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum macropus (Linden & Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917; Cyrtochilum miradorense (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Dalström 2001; Cyrtochilum rusbyi (Rolfe ex Britton) Kraenzl. 1917; *Odontoglossum cimiciferum Rchb.f. 1849; Oncidium cimiciferum ( Rchb.f. ) Beer 1854; Oncidium cimiferum Rchb.f. ex Linden 1882; Oncidium flexuosum Lindley not Sims 1822; Oncidium macropus Linden & Rchb.f. 1868; Oncidium miradorense D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1992; Oncidium rusbyi Rolfe ex Britton 1895; Trigonochilum macropus (Linden & Rchb.f.) Königer & Schildh. 1994; Trigonochilum rusbyi (Rolfe ex Britton) Königer & Schildhauer 1994;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853 as Oncidium flexuousum; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C macropus; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C rusbyiVenezuelan Orchids illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Oncidium cimiciferum drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Oncidium cimiciferum drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium cimiciferum drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0122 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 532 Bennett & Christenson 1998 as Oncidum miradorense drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidium cimiciferum drawing ok; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as C miradorense; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium cimiciferum photo good; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium cimiciferum; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium macropus; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 as C sp pg 102 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as C miradorense; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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