Cyrtopodium cristatum Lindl 1841 Photo courtesy of © Maarten Sepp
SLIGHT
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Calus Cyrtopodium
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found from French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Northern Brazil at elevations of 100 to 1150 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing terrestrial with narrowly conic-subcylindrical, acuminate, erect pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, leafless, evanescent sheaths and carrying 4, coriaceous, erect, plicate, linear leaves that are just begining to develop at blooming which is on a basal, generally racemose, rarely paniculate, densely to subdesely many flowered in the apical portion, 12 to 24" [30 to 60 cm] long, inflorescence with slightly fragrant flowers occuring in tha late winter and early spring
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 not = C paniculatum; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = C paniculatum; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plat 027 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin vol 64 No 3 1995 photo; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo hmm
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