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Orchid Species: Odontoglossum ulopterum

Kew currently accepted name is Cyrtochilum angustatum

Odontoglossum ulopterum is an orchid species identified by Linden & Rchb.f. in 1872. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cyrtochilum angustatum.
Genus
Odontoglossum (Odm.)
Grex
ulopterum
Parents
Species
Author
Linden & Rchb.f.
Year
1872
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ORIGIN: Found in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 2200 to 3400 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Cold growing terrestrial on roadside embankments and humus covered rocky slopes or as an epiphyte at the edge of forests with egg shaped, slightly laterally compressed, ancipitous, smooth but longitudinally grooved with age pseudobulbs enveloped partially by several, distichous, imbricating, longitudinally folded sheaths with the upper three being leaf bearing and carrying 1 to 2, erect, spreading, acute, lanceolate, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaves and blooms in the late fall on an erect, to 22 [55 cm] long, many flowered, several, fractiflex branched inflorescence arising through the axil of an upper leaf bearing sheath of a newly matured pseudobulb and carrying 5 to 6 flowers on each 5 to 6 [12.5 to 15 cm] long branch.

FLOWER SIZE: 3.1 inches [8 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 angustatum 2001 (Lindl.) Dalström
Add+ Odontoglossum Odm claviceps 1876 Rchb.f.
Add+ Odontoglossum Odm sodiroi 1921 Schltr.
Add+ Odontoglossum Odm spilotanthum 1872 Linden & Rchb.f.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Cyr. angustatum 'Silvia' (2017)
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