Cyrtochilum ramosissimum (Lindl.) Dalström 2001
Close up Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.
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Common Name The Many Branched Cyrtochilum
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador near the tree line at elevations of 2300 to 3700 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with closely set, ovate, laterally flattened, pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several disitichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost few being leaf-bearing and carrying 2 apical, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that are conduplicate towards the base into the petiole and blooms on an axillary, erect, to 28" [70 cm] long, paniculate, many [to 100] flowered infloresscence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb that can occur at any time of the year and carrying faintly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Odontoglossum amphiglottii Rchb. f. 1877; Odontoglossum liliiflorum (H.J.Veitch) auct. 1890; Odontoglossum ramosissimum Lindl. 1852; Odontoglossum ramosissimum var. liliiflorum H.J.Veitch 1886; Oncidium ramosissimum (Lindl.) Beer 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853 as Odontoglossum ramosissimum; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 as Odontoglossum ramosissimum drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Odontoglossum ramosissimum; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Odontoglossum ramosossimum drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 966 Dodson 1984; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as Odontoglossum ramossisimum photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as Odontoglossum ramossisimum photo hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Odontoglossum ramossisimum drawing fide; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 drawing;
Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing/photo fide;
Cyrtochillum ramossisimum fma. albo-maculatum (Lindl.) Dalström 2001
Synonyms Odontoglossum ramosissimum var. albomaculatum Bockemühl 1986
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