Cyrtochilum lamelligerum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by © H.Šedivá and Botanickateplice Website

Another Flower Photo by Ecuagenera and the Ecuadorian Orchid Website

Common Name The Ledge Carrying Cyrtochilum ?

Flower Size 2" [2.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with slender, flattened pseudobulbs enveloped basally bu several distichous, imbricating, lower leafless, upper leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, strap-shaped, widest towards the apex but tapers quickly to an acute apex, tapers gradually below the middle into the elongate, conduplicate, narrow, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring in situ on a basal, climbing, rambling, to 59" [150 cm] long, paniculate inflorescence with the large showy flowers held towards the apex on a few short, widely spaced, spreading, 1 to 3 flowered branches.

Synonyms *Oncidium lamelligerum Rchb.f. 1876

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 2 1961 photo as Oncidium lamelligerum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 973 Dodson 1984 as Oncidium lamelligerum drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Lindleyana Vol 16 no 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium lamelligerum not = C ionodon; 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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