Cyrtochilum villenaorum Christenson 2002 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt , Plant grown by Marni Turkel

Inflorescence Photo by Patricia Harding

Common Name Villena's Cyrtochilum [Villena family, who own and operate orchid nursery Agroriente in Moyobamba, Peru current]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Peru, south of Moyabambe, as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte, similar to C volubile but differs in the different colors, shorter sepal claws and a differently shaped callus, with an ascending rhizome, carrying ovoid, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 linear, acute, conduplicate below into the petiole-like base leaves that blooms on a basal, through the axil of the basal sheaths, 6.6' [2 meters] long, paniculate, inflorescence with short, 3 to 5 flowered, slightly fractiflex branches and broadly ovate, acute-acuminate, carinate, floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchids Vol 71: No 7 pg 616 2002 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 1 2008 photo;Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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