Cyrtochilum falcipetalum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by © Guido Deburghgraeve

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Common Name The Sickle-Petal Cyrtochilum

Flower Size to 3" [7.5 cm]

A large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte, terrestrial or occasional lithophyte found in Venezuela and Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2700 meters in montane forests with ovoid or subcylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 1 to rarely 2 oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate leaves and blooms in the spring on a basal, from the leaf bearing sheaths, arching, 10' [300 cm] long, paniculate, short branched inflorescence with up to 6 flowers.

Synonyms Cyrtochilum davisii (Rchb.f.) Dalström 2001; Cyrtochilum pavonii (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. ex Kraenzl. 1922: Oncidium davisii Rchb. f. 1876; *Oncidium falcipetalum Lindl. 1846; Oncidium falcipetalum var. pavonii Rchb. f. ex Lindl. 1855;

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853 as Oncidium falcipetalum; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Oncidium falcipetalum drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 2 1961 photo as Oncidium falcipetalum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Oncidium falcipetalum; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 photo; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Oncidium falcipetalum drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium falcipetalum drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0126 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Oncidium falcipetalum drawing hmm; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 as Oncidium falcipetalum photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidium falcipetalum drawing ok; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as C davisii; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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