Cyrtopodium eugenii Rchb. f. 1881

Plant in situ Minas Gerais Brazil Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Common Name or Meaning Eugene's Cyrtopodium [Danish Plant Collector Brazil 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil on the road between Datas and Presidente Kubichek at elevations around 900 to 1250 meters as a medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with smaller [to 6"], fusiform, clustered pseudobulbs partially enveloped by leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths that soon become deciduous and carrying erect, narrowly lanceolate, green, glaucous leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, erect, 4'4" [1.3 Meter] long, several to many flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 3 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 7 1994 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 7 1995 photo; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

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