Cyrtochilum leopoldianum (Rolfe) Kraenzl 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and Orchids by Gary Yong Gee Website

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Common Name Leopold's Cyrtochilum [Belgian King late 1800's]

Flower Size 1 3/5" [to 4 cm]

Found in Colombia and Peru in transitional forests inbetween savannah woods and uplands evergreen wood at elevations of 1300 to 1400 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with a long creeping rhizome, ovoid-oblong to ovoid-cylindrical pseudobulbs basally enveloped by several pairs of imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying 1 or 2 apical, oblanceolate, acute, gradually conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms on a scandent, many branched, 100" [2.5 meters] long, several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Oncidium leopoldi "Rolfe" ex God.-Leboeuf 1890; Oncidium leopoldianum Rolfe 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing ok; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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