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Orchid Species: Odontoglossum cimiciferum

Kew currently accepted name is Cyrtochilum cimiciferum

Odontoglossum cimiciferum is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1850. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cyrtochilum cimiciferum.
Genus
Odontoglossum (Odm.)
Grex
cimiciferum
Parents
Species
Author
Rchb.f.
Year
1850
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ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador near Quito, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1850 to 2250 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with ovate or elliptic-ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into a conduplicate, slightly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, 21 [51 cm] long, apically fractiflex, paniculate, shortly branched, widely spaced, each branch 2 flowered, 2 to 2.4 [5 to 6 cm] between each flower, to 12 flowered, inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with a few widely spaced, branches and carrying many widely spaced 2 to 2.4 [5 to 6 cm] flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.6 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Cyrtochilum Cyr cimiciferum 2001 (Rchb.f.) Dalström
Add+ Cyrtochilum Cyr macropus 1917 (Linden & Rchb.f.) Kraenzl.
Add+ Cyrtochilum Cyr miradorense 2001 (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Dalström
Add+ Cyrtochilum Cyr rusbyi 1917 (Rolfe) Kraenzl.
Add+ Trigonochilum Tgc cimiciferum 2009 (Rchb.f. ex Lindl.) Königer
Add+ Oncidium Onc cimiferum 1882 Rchb.f. ex Linden
Add+ Oncidium Onc macropus 1868 Linden & Rchb.f.
Add+ Oncidium Onc miradorense 1998 D.E.Benn. & Christenson
Add+ Oncidium Onc rusbyi 1895 Rolfe
Add+ Trigonochilum Tgc macropus 1994 (Linden & Rchb.f.) Königer & Schildh.
Add+ Trigonochilum Tgc miradorense 2008 (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Königer
Add+ Trigonochilum Tgc rusbyi 1994 (Rolfe) Königer & Schildh.
Add+ Oncidium Onc cimiciferum 1854 (Rchb.f.) Beer
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Onc. cimiciferum 'India Rose' (2 awards in 1993) Cyr. cimiciferum 'Quitos' (2013)
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