Cyrtochilum orgyale (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin

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Common Name The One-Fathom Long Cyrtochilum [refers to the elongate inflorescence]

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela at elevations around 1800 to 3400 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with ellipsoid to elliptic-ovoid, ancipitous, well spaced pseduobulbs completely envelopd by several, distichous, imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute to subacute, conduplicate and attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on a paniculate to occasional racemose, several to many flowered, 8" to 6' 8" [20cm to 2m] long inflorescence.

Synonyms Oncidium claesii Rolfe1906; *Oncidium orgyale Rchb.f. & Warsz.1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Oncidium orgyale; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Oncidium orygale good; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 as Oncidium carderi drawing fide;Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 5 1974 as Oncidium orgyale photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium orgyale drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Oncidium orgyale drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orquideas Nativas de Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide

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