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Orchid Species: Cyrtochilum orgyale
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cyrtochilum orgyale is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Kraenzl. in 1917.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Venezuela at elevations around 1800 to 3400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with ellipsoid to elliptic-ovoid, ancipitous, well spaced pseudobulbs completely enveloped by several, distichous, imbricate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute to subacute, conduplicate and attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, axillary, 8 to 200 [20cm to 5 m] long, paniculate to occasionally racemose, each widely spaced branch to 20 [50 cm] long, several to many flowered, inflorescence carrying showy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.4 inches [6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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