Cyrtochilum exasperatum (Linden & Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Cimicifera Lindley Photos by K. Senghas © and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Smooth Cyrtochilum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Colombia in very wet montane forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, creeping rhizome giving rise to small pseudobulbs enveloped completely by distichous, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying ligulate, thin, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect then descending, paniculate, each branch branching with several flowers, to 18" [45 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Oncidium exasperatum Linden & Rchb.f.1869; Trigonochilum exasperatum (Linden & Rchb.f.) Königer & Schildh. 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 473 Dodson 1982 as Oncidium exasperatum drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol IV Dodson 2003 as Oncidium exasperatum drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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