Cyrtochilum ventilabrum (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another View Photo by © Arturo Carillo

Common Name The Wind-Blown Cyrtochilum [refers to the moveable lip]

Flower Size 1.8" [4 cm]

Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru in high, wet montane cloud forests in dense vegetation in thin soil at elevations of 1500 to 3500 meters as a giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a woody rhizome with 8" [20 cm] between each, smooth, somewhat laterally compressed, ovoid speudobulbs enveloped partially basally by several imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, light to medium green, shallowly grooved above and slightly keeled below leaves that blooms that blooms in the summer on an axillary, to 98" [to 250 cm], paniculate, many branches rarely branching, many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseduobulb.

Synonyms Cyrtochilum carderi (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917; Oncidium carderi Rchb.f. 1875; Oncidium undulatum Lindl. 1841; *Oncidium ventilabrum Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Oncidium ventilabrum; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing fide; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C carderi drawing good; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Oncidium carderi; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Oncidium carderi; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 as C carderi photo fide; Icines Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 146 Bennett & Chritenson 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium ventrilabium drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidum/Odontoglossum alliance Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide

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