IOSPE PHOTOS

Cyrtochilum longipes [Rchb.f. & Warsz] Kraenzl. 1922 Photo by Š Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

Common Name The Long Column Foot Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador and Peru in dry grasslands above the treeline or on clay banks in cool wet cloud forests at elevations of 2800 to 3300 metes as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with ovate, flattened pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost being leaf-bearing and blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, erect, paniculate, to 3'+ [1 meter] long, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb through the axil of the upper basal sheath

Synonyms Dasyglossum flavescens (Rolfe) Königer & Schildh. 1994; Dasyglossum longipes ( Rchb.f. & Warsz. ) Königer & Schildh. 1994; Odontoglossum flavescens Rolfe 1904; *Odontoglossum longipes Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1856; Trigonochilum flavescens (Rolfe) Senghas 1997; Trigonochilum longipes (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Senghas 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Odontoglossum longipes; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 952 Ecuador Dodson 1984 as Odontoglossum flavescens drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 958 Ecuador Dodson 1984 as Odontoglossum longipes drawing ok, Icones Orchidacearium Peruviarum Bennet & Christensen Plate 331 1995 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearium Peruviarum Bennet & Christensen Plate 727 2001 as Odontoglossum flavescens drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide

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