| Cyrtopodium paniculatum photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | (Ruiz & Pavon) Garay, Leslie Andrew |
| published in | Caldasia 8 ( 40 ) : 524 1962 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Cymbidieae | |
| subtribe | Cyrtopodiinae | |
| genus | Cyrtopodium Brown & Aiton & Aiton T. 1813 | |
| metabolism |
C3 pathway, stomata of the leaves are open during the day. |
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| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | Messico (Jalisco, Puerto Vallarda), Suriname (Mazaruni, Potaro), Guyana, Venezuela (Amazonas, Barinas, Merida), Colombia (Vichada), Costa Rica (Llanura de Guanacaste, La Cruz), Panama, Ecuador (Carchi, Imbabura), Peru (Piura, Huancabamba, Huanuco), Bolivia (La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cordillera,Beni, Chuquisaca, Tarija, F. Tamayo) |
| altitude | 0 - 1950 m (0 - 6435 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Mazaruni (Mazaruni, Guyana) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
| (no winter season, more abundant rainfall) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1000 m / 3300 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Mazaruni this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 25 m' to 11 h 35 m' | |
| life form | geophyte | |
| brightness | full sun | |
| inflorescence | length | 100 - 120 cm (40 - 48"), basal |
| nr flowers | 40 - 60 | |
| size | single flower 5 L 4 cm (2 L 1.6") - inflorescence 32 L 36 cm (12.8 L 14.4") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 60 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 40 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
