Cyrtochilum examinans (Lindl.) Kraenzl 1917 SECTION Cimicifera Lindley

Side View of Flower Drawing by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Another Flower Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Examining Cyrtochilum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Colombia on siltstone and sandstone in dense forests and on steep ridges with humus at elevations of 1900 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with clustered, ovoid, lightly compressed, smooth, light olive,finely wrinkled with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, linear, acute, narrowing and conduplicate into the elongate petilolate base leaf that blooms on an axilalry, paniculate, divaricate branched, 5 to 8" between each 12" [30 cm] long branch, to 5 flowered, 270" [3 meter] long, many flowered inflorescence.

The Photos by Pfahl Det. by Eric Christenson

Synonyms Cyrtochilum centifrancum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917; Oncidium centifrancum Rchb.f. 1863; Oncidium examinans Lindl. 1855; Trigonochilum centifrancum (Rchb.f.) Königer & Schildh. 94; Trigonochilum examinans (Lindl.) Königer & Schildh. 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970 as Onciduim examinans; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville and Garay 1976 as Oncidium examinans drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium examinans drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidum examinans drawing hmm; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium examinans

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