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Orchid Species: Cycnoches egertonianum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cycnoches egertonianum is an orchid species identified by Bateman in 1842.
ORIGIN: This species is found in Mexico and Guatemala and then south to Colombia, Peru and Brazil at elevations of 600 to 1800 meters on tree trunks in wet forests.
DESCRIPTION: This species is found in Mexico and Guatemala and then south to Colombia, Peru and Brazil at elevations of 600 to 1800 meters on tree trunks in wet forests and is a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte that blooms mostly in the fall and winter with an arcuate to pendant, 1 1/2' to 2 1/2' [45 to 75 cm] long, many flowered male or few flowered female, racemose inflorescence that arise from the leaf nodes near the apex of the newest, mature, fusiform to conical pseudobulb with 2 to several, deciduous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, thin leaves. Old leafless pseudobulbs and backbulbs can produce keikis.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 long to 2 1/2 across often smaller inches [6.75 cm or less]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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