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

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Marni Turkel

Common Name The Three Forked Oncidium

Flower Size 2 1/5" [5.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador in upper montane cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2600 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with elongate-ellipsoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, linear, acute, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, loosely paniculate, 6' 8" [190 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms *Oncidium trifurcatum Lindl.1845

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 974 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium trifurcatum drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide

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