Cyrtochilum fractum (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1922

SECTION Cimicifera Lindley Photo by Lourens Grobler

Side View of Flower Photos by © Guido Deburghgraeve and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Bent Cyrtochilum [refers to the multibranched twining inflorescence that grows through tree branches for support becuse of it's long length]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2250 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte on small trees with ovate, slightly compressed, longitudinally grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, linear, to linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a basal, to 118" [300 cm] long, branched that often branches again with short, somewhat fractiflex inflorescence with close set branches carrying many flowers.

Synonyms Cyrtochilum medellinense Kraenzl. 1917; Dasyglossum fractum (Rchb. f.) Königer & Schildhauer 1994; Irenea fracta (Rchb.f.) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Romowicz 2006; Odontoglossum fractum Rchb. f. 1877; Odontoglossum medellinense (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920; Trigonochilum fractum (Rchb.f.) Senghas 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0115 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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