Cyrtochilum weirii (Rchb. f.) Dalström 2001

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name or Meaning Weir's Cyrtochilum [English plant collector in SE Brazil 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Cundinamarca Colombia on moss covered branches of trees and shrubs in upper cloudforests or paramo at elevations of 2700 to 3500 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespiotse, bifoliate lithophyte, on cliff faces, or epiphyte with ovate, slightly laterally compressed, slightly longitudinally rugose with age pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by7 2 pairs of disitichous, imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, broadly lanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into the petiole-like base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer in Bogata' on an axillary, 30" [75 cm] long, erect then arching to pendulous, to 7 branched and to 40 flowered, racemose inflorescence that arises on a newly matured pseudobulb and carrys weakly scented flowers

Synonyms Odontoglossum marginellum Rchb.f. 1882; Odontoglossum weirii Rchb.f 1875

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0267 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing ok; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2001; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as Odontoglossum weirii photo fide; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 as Odontoglossum weirii photo fide;

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