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Odontoglossum loesenerianum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1921. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cyrtochilum loesenerianum.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru and Bolivia in cold wet cloud forests at elevations of 2700 to 3100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large, cold growing, caespitose terrestrial with ovoid-pyriform, unifoliate, lightly complanate, sulcate, furrows obtuse angled pseudobulbs that are basally enveloped by 3 to 4 pairs of sheaths, scarious below and articulated leaf-bearing above that has a single, apical, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, attenuate to the petiole acute apically leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, long, scapose, 2'+ [60 cm] long, paniculate, horizontallyto almost pendent, 5 to 6 branched each 5 to 8 flowered, 25 to 50 flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.2 inches [5.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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