Cyrtochilum loxense (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

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Common Name The Loja Cyrtochilum [Town in Ecuador]

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador in upper montane cloud forestss near the town of Loja at elevations around 2600 to 2700 meters as a large sized, cold growing epiphytic orchid with a short rhizome carrying ovate, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped baslly by several disitchous, foliaceous sheaths carrying 1 to 2, apical, ligulate, coriaceous, acute leaves that are conduplicate towards the base and bloom in the winter and early spring on a basal, from the axils of the lateral leaf sheaths, elongate, viney, scandent, to 10' [300 cm] long, many branched inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb through the axil of the leaf sheath, having tubular, acuminate bracts and with 1 to 3 flowers on each branch.

Synonyms *Oncidium loxense Lindl. 1851-2

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing fide; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C fallens drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Oncidium loxense; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 477 Dodson 1982 as Oncidium loxense drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium loxense drawing /photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 photo/drawing fide

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