Cyrtochilum volubile Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Turning Cyrtochilum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Peru and Brazil? in wet forests in underbrush at elevations around 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with clustered, narrowly oblong-cylindrical, ribbed, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few pairs of short-lived, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, linear-oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, conduplicate below into the petiole-like base leaves that blooms winter and spring on an axillary, 84" to 276" [1 to 7 meters] long, scandent, loosely branched, many flowered inflorescence arising from a maturing pseudobulb with fractiflex, short, widely spaced branches each carrying 3 to 5 flowers.

Synonyms Oncidium corynephorum Lindl. 1838; Oncidium volubile (Poepp. & Endl.) Cogn. 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917;Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0102 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Oncidium volubile drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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