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Orchid Species: Cyrtochilum hoeijeri
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cyrtochilum hoeijeri is an orchid species identified by (Dalström) Dalström in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Azuay and Loja Ecuador in upper level cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 2900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with caespitose, narrowly-ovoid sllightly ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 6 to 7 distichous, uppermost foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single conduplicate, linear to narrowly ovate, acuminate, subpetiolate basally leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on 1 to 2, axillary, arising from the uppermost sheaths, erect, suberect to arching, to 4.8 to 10 [12 to 25 cm] long, peduncle with 1 to 2 adpressed scale like bracts, racemose to paniculate inflorescence with similar yet smaller floral bracts and carrying 2 to 9 flowers that do not open well.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.32 inches [0.8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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