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Orchid Species: Cyrtochilum alboroseum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cyrtochilum alboroseum is an orchid species identified by (Dalström) Dalström in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador in Loja Province and Peru in scrub cloud forests just below the windswept, grassy paramo at elevations around 3000 to 3350 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with oblong to pear-shaped, slightly laterally compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by 3 to 4 pairs of conduplicate, imbricating, leafless below and leaf-bearing [graduating smaller from uppermost to lower] above sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to slightly arching, oblanceolate to elliptic, acute, narrows below into the elongate, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a basal, erect, paniculate, several to many [15 to 20] flowered inflorescence arising through a leaf sheath axil of a mature growth with several, spreading, loosely 3 to 6 flowered branches held towards the apex.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.6 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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