Cyrtopodium Brown 1813
Creators: name: Batista, João A. N.
name: Valebella, Miriam
name: Cruz-Lustre, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Cyrtopodium

description: Key to terrestrial or occasionally rupicolous species of Cyrtopodium with medium-sized, aerial pseudobulbs (10–25 cm long)
1. Plants from poorly drained, water-saturated soils ..............................................................................................................................2
- Plants from dry, well-drained soils.....................................................................................................................................................4
2. Flowers pinkish-violet; callus bilamellate................................................................................................................... C. hatschbachii
- Flowers yellow, brownish or vinaceous; callus warty........................................................................................................................3
3. Lip lateral lobes falcate, apex acute ............................................................................................................................. C. parviflorum
- Lip lateral lobes spatulate, apices rounded.................................................................................................................. C. paludicolum
4. Lip lateral lobes falcate or oblong, base not constricted ....................................................................................................................5
- Lip lateral lobes dolabriform, obovoid, spatulate or transversely broadly ovate, base constricted ...................................................6
5. Lip lateral lobes falcate, apex acute ............................................................................................................................. C. parviflorum
- Lip lateral lobes oblong to obovoid, apex rounded ............................................................................................................. C. vernum
6. Lateral lobes of the lip smaller than the mid lobe (smaller in both width and length); isthmus separating the mid lobe from lateral lobes usually conspicuous, 1–4 mm long...........................................................................................................................................7
- Lateral lobes of the lip approximately the same size as the mid lobe (about the same width and length); isthmus separating the mid lobe from lateral lobes absent or inconspicuous, 0–1(–2) mm long...................................................................................................8
7. Inflorescence usually profusely branched, occasionally racemose; sepals, petals and lip yellow with red to reddish brown spots; lip lateral lobes upper margin wavy; mid lobe 6–10 mm wide ............................................................................................. C. virescens
- Inflorescence usually racemose, occasionally with 1–2 secondary axis; sepals and petals brownish or greenish, base and apex speckled or filled with red, lip yellow with red lateral lobes; lip lateral lobes upper margin entire; mid lobe 10–14 mm wide......... ............................................................................................................................................................................................. C. eugenii
8. Inflorescence always racemose; flowers yellow with few or no spots, when present, reddish or brown; mid lobe margin entire...... .......................................................................................................................................................................................... C. cristatum
- Inflorescence paniculate, rarely racemose; flowers yellow with red or reddish brown spots; mid lobe margin strongly warty lamellar ............................................................................................................................................................................ C. valebellae
description: Published as part of Batista, João A. N., Valebella, Miriam & Cruz-Lustre, Gabriela, 2023, A New Overlooked Species of Cyrtopodium (Cymbidieae, Orchidaceae) from the Southern Andean Yungas and Chaco Serrano Ecoregions of Northern Argentina and Southwestern Bolivia, pp. 283-293 in Phytotaxa 587 (3) on page 291, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.587.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7744365