Cyrtochilum ixioides Lindl. 1833

Another Angle Photos by Guido Deburghgraeve ©

Common Name The Ixia-Like Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Cundinamarca Colombia in scrub and grass in paramo at elevations of 3000 to 3300 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with small pear-shaped, sulcate with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 5, leathery, leaf-like, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate sheaths and carrying 2, apical, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on a 12" [30 cm] long, erect to arching, loosely, 7 flowered racemose on one side of the inflorescence arising through a leaf sheath.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium Bakers 2005; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 as Odontoglossum ixioides;

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