Cyrtochilum williamsianum (Dodson) Dalström 2001

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Common Name Williams' Cyrtochilum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 1200 to 1410 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with caespitose, narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by 8 to 10, distichous, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-elliptic, acute, conduplicate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on an axillary, , erect to slightly wiry, few flowered, fractiflex, to 20" [50 cm] long, sopmetimes paniculate with a few widely spaced, short, fractiflex, few flowered, branches, many flowered inflorescence with conspicuous, convex-involute bracts.

Synonyms Cyrtochilum rodrigoi (Königer) Dalström 2001; *Oncidium williamsianum Dodson 1996; Trigonochilum rodrigoi Königer 2000; Trigonochilum williamsianum (Dodson) Senghas 2001; Trigonochilum williamsianum (Dodson) Königer 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium williamsianum drawing/photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide

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