Cyrtopodium triste Rchb. f. & Warm. 1881 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista Copyrighted by Alexandre Lopes and his Orchidstudium Website

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Common Name The Dark Purple Cyrtopodium

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A just medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial found in rocky fields in Minas Gerais State of Brazil with numerous, small, clustered, half buried, erect to curved psuedobulbs carrying several, plicate, 3 nerved, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, acute attenuate below into the pseudopetiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, racemose, 20" to 28" [50 to 70 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 7 1995 photo; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide

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