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Cyrtochilum stegasaurum is an orchid species identified by D.E.Benn. & Christenson in 2001. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cyrtochilum insculptum.
ORIGIN: Found in Loja Ecuador and Peru on the western slopes in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1900 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid, close set pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating, leaf-beaaring sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong, tapering in both directions to an acute apex and a narrow conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, erect then twining, vine-like, to more than 39 [100 cm+] long, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence with the widely spaced flowers held in the apical 1/3 on a few, 10 [25 cm] long branches with up to 6 flowers on each branch.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.5 inches [3.8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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