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Cycnoches peruviana is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cycnoches peruvianum.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Peru as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte from wet montane forests at elevations of 450 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Ecuador and Peru as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte from wet montane forests at elevations of 450 to 900 meters with elongate, cylindric, composed of several noded pseudobulb that is enveloped completely by several, scarious, foliaceous sheaths and carrying thin, plicate, distichous, deciduous leaves that blooms mostly in the fall and winter in situ with an arcuate to pendant, 1 1/2' to 2 1/2' [45 to 75 cm] long, many flowered male or few flowered female, racemose inflorescence that arise from the leaf nodes near the apex of the newest, mature, fusiform to conical pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 long to 2 1/2 across
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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