Cyrtochilum ringens (Rchb.f.) Dalström 2001

Another Flower Angle Photos by Guido Deburghgraeve ©

Common Name The Rigid Cyrtochilum

Flower Size

Found in Peru and Bolivia in wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 2700 to 3300 meters as a large sized, cold growing epiphyte with oblong to ovoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by one or more pairs of short, distichous, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, narrowly oblong to strap-shaped, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, elongate, loosely branched, many flowered inflorescence with short, fractiflex, rather densely few [3 to 8] flowered branches

Synonyms Odontoglossum fractiflexum Kraenzl. 1906; *Odontoglossum ringens Rchb.f. 1870; Trigonochilum fractiflexum (Kraenzl.) Königer & Schildh. 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1868 as Odontoglossum ringens drawing fide; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 as Odontoglossum ringens drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1961; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0268 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as Odontoglossum ringens drawing fide; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Alliance Bakers 2006

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