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Orchid Species: Cyrtochilum tanii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cyrtochilum tanii is an orchid species identified by Dalström in 2010.
ORIGIN: Found in Manabi Peru in in dry scrubby forests at elevations around 400 to 600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a creeping bracteate rhizome, more or less caespitose to slightly distant, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 4 to 5 distichous, foliaceous sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, apical, conduplicate, linearelliptic to obovate, acute to acuminateapically, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an axillary, erect to arching, almost straight to weakly flexuous, to 3'4 [1 meters long, paniculate, widely spaced arching, few to several flowered branches, weakly flexuous sidebranches, many flowered inflorescence with adpressed, scale-like flral bracts and carrying stellate flowers with recurved segments.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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