Cyrtochilum retusum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1917 Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Guido Deburghgraeve ©

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Common Name The Blunt Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters in very wet montane forests as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with ovate, complanate pseudobulbs subtended by several basal leaf-brearing sheaths with 2 apical, oblong-lanceolate, conduplicate below into the short petiolate base, acuminate leaves and blooms in the summer and fall with sterile and fertile flowers on the same elongate, 2' [60 cm] long, arcuate, compound paniculate, many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Cyrtochilum lehmannianum Kraenzl. 1922; ; Dasyglossum retusum (Lindl.) Königer & Schildhauer 1994; Irenea retusa (Lindl.) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Romowicz 2006; Odontoglossum retusum Lindl. 1844; Oncidium retusum (Lindl.) Beer 1854; Trigonochilum retusum (Lindl.) Senghas 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 470 Dodson 1982 as Odontoglossum retusum drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0142 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Oncidium retusum not correct; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 145 Bennett & Christenson 1993 as Oncidium retusum drawing not correct; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as Odontoglossum retusum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 3 2006 drawing; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, 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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