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Cyrtochilum (Trigonochilum) murinum (Orchidaceae) Valle de Cocora, Quindio, Colombia. Jun 12, 2014 Colombia,Cyrtochilum murinum,Geotagged,Mouse-Like Cyrtochilum,Spring Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Cyrtochilum (Trigonochilum) murinum (Orchidaceae)

Valle de Cocora, Quindio, Colombia. Jun 12, 2014

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  1. I've always known this guy as Cyrtochilum, but it looks like some have proposed putting it in Trigonochilum. Honestly not sure who prefers to use which name today, and what it will be tomorrow... Posted 9 years ago

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Cyrtochilum murinum is found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1700 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with clustered, slightly compressed, wrinkled pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, apical, strap-shaped, acute, keeled, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on an axillary, somewhat.. more

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Species identified by Jivko Nakev
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Uploaded Aug 22, 2016. Captured Jun 12, 2014 11:54 in Vía al Valle del Cocora, Salento, Quindío, Colombia.
  • PENTAX K-3
  • f/7.1
  • 1/500s
  • ISO800
  • 135mm