Cyrtochilum xanthodon (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1917 SECTION Eucyrtochilum Kranzlin
Column and Lip Detail Another Angle Photos by © Guido Deburghgraeve
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Common Name The Yellow Toothed Cyrtochilum
Flower Size 1" [2.5]
Found in Colombia to southern Ecuador and northern Peru at high altitudes of 1500-2500 as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with conical, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of densely imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 apical, oblanceolate, acute, conduplicate below into an elongate petiole-like base leaves. The axillary inflorescence is up to 80 to 106" [200 to 270 cm] long, paniculate, many [200] flowered inflorescence with 3 to 5 flowers on each, widely spaced, fractiflex branches and can have lower secondary branches also and all occuring in the summer
Synonyms Cyrtochilum phylloglossum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917; Cyrtochilum plagianthum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1917; Oncidium phylloglossum Rchb.f. 1881; Oncidium plagianthum Rchb.f. 1873; Oncidium xanthodon Rchb. f. 1868
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C plagianthum drawing not; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1917 as C phylloglossum drawing ok; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium xanthodon photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide
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