Cyrtopodium brandonianum Barb.Rodr. 1877

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Common Name or Meaning Brandon's Cyrtopodium

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in eastern and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay? and northern Argentina at elevations of 400 to 450 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with clustered, short, oval-elongate, pseudobulbs never completely buried in the ground and carrying linear-lacneoate, acuminate, plicate leaves that blooms on a basal, 16" to 32" [40 to 80 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence occurring in the summer

Synonyms Cyrtopodium purpureum Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as C purpureum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C purpureum drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 7 1994 photo cover; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 1 1995 photo; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; Boletim CAOB #57 2005

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