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Plant in situ Peru Photos by © Rebecca Repasky and Atrium Biodiversity Information site Website

Common Name The Winged Cyrtidiorchis

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in southwestern Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2600 meters as a large to giant sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with 2 growth forms the first, a short rhizone giving rise to large, ovoid, lightly compressed, deciduous pseduobulbs with roots and carrying 2 apical, oblong ligulate, obtuse, conduplicate at the subpetiolate base leaves and the second a branching stem with no pseudobulbs and no roots carrying deciduous, foliaceous, oblong-ligulate, acute bracts all along the length with persistent sheathing bracts that blooms in the spring on an axillary subsessile .8" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Camaridium alatum (Ruiz & Pav.) Lindl. 1845; Chrysocycnis glumaceum L.O.Williams 1940; Cyrtidium alatum (Ruiz & Pav.) Garay 1962; Dendrobium alatum (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. 1807; Maxillaria alata Ruiz & Pav. 1798

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 422 Dodson 1982 as Cyrtidium alatum drawing ok;

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