Cyrtochilum serratum (Lindl.) Kraenzl.1917 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Lip Detail Photos by Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
Plant ensitu Ecuador Photos by Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Saw Edged-Flower Cyrtochilum
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in western Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests at elevations of 1300 to 3100 meters as a large sized, cold to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep cliff faces with oblong-ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, narrowly linear-oblanceolate, acute, leaves that blooms on an axillary, arcuate, 5 to 9' [150 to 270 cm] long, flexuous, racemose to paniculate inflorescence arising from the leaf sheath on a mature pseudobulb with many wide-spreading flowers occuring in the winter.
Synonyms Oncidium diadema Lindley 1866; *Oncidium serratum Lindley 1842
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 2 1959 as Oncidium serratum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 189 Dodson 1980 Oncidium serratum; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium serratum; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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