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Orchid Species: Cyrtochilum ringens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cyrtochilum ringens is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Dalström in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru and Bolivia in wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 2700 to 3300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cold growing epiphyte with oblong to ovoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by one or more pairs of short, distichous, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, narrowly oblong to strap-shaped, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, elongate, loosely shortly branched, each branch3 to 8 flowered, fractiflex, many flowered inflorescence with carrying wide spreading flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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