Mouse-Like Cyrtochilum

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 erect, shortly paniculate, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with all the flowers in the apical 1/3 and only 3 to 6 flowers per branch.