Cyrtochilum ionodon (Rchb. f.) Dalström 2002 Photo by Guido Deburghgraeve © .

Common Name The Violet-Blue Tooth Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Peru in cool wet cloud forests at elevations around 2800 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ovoid, lightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several foliaceous sheaths that are shorter or equal to the 2 apical, linear, acuminate, erect, arching leaves and blooms in the summer on a enormous vine-like, paniculate, 7'8" [2.3m] long inflorescence arising on a fully matured pseudobulb with many branches with 4 to 8, showy flowers each

Synonyms *Oncidium ionodon Rchb. f. 1876

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 531 Bennett & Christenson 1998 as Oncidium ionodon drawing hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium lamelligerum photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide

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