Cyrtochilum cordatum (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo by Guido Deburghgraeve ©

Common Name The Heart-Shaped Cyrtochilum [refers to the lip]

Flower Size 2.2" [5.5 cm]

Found only in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial on steep slopes covered with small trees, bushes and grass with narrowly ovate to conical pseuobulbs enveloped completely by several pairs of imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths [these may be longer than the apical leaves] and carrying two, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate and narrowing below into the petiole-like base leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, twinning, paniculate several to many flowered inflorescence with 2 to 6, lateral, 6" [25 cm] long branches that may have secondary branches all in the apical 1/4 with large, thin, waxy flowers.

CAUTION Not to be confused with Odontoglossum/ Lemboglossum/ Rhynchostele cordata that occurs from Mexico to Venezuela.

Synonyms *Oncidium cordatum Lindl. 1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0138 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as O pastorellii drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 335 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as Oncidium cordatum drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide

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