Odontoglossum contaypacchaense D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001 Photo by Guido Deburghgraeve ©

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Common Name The Contaypaccha Odontoglossum [A district in the state of Junin Peru]

Flower Size 3/4" [.8 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests in protected Arroyo at elevations around 1890 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with elliptical, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped completely by several, disitchous, imbricate, longitudinally folded, leafbearing sheaths with the uppermost being almost the same as the 1 to 2, apical, arching, linear-lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect, to 37" [87 cm] long, paniculate, many branched, some rebranched, many flowered inflorescence with the lower branches being progressively shorter.

This orchid may actually be a Cyrtochilum but as to date has not been described as such.

Synonyms Trigonochilum contaypacchaense (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Senghas 2003

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 726 Bennet & Christenson 2001; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium Alliance, Bakers 2006;

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