Polycycnis

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Polycycnis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Polycycnis (Greek, many and swan, probably referring to the lip and column which together bear some resemblance to a swan). Orchidaceae. Epiphytic herbs with very short vaginate 1-lvd. sts.. scarcely thickened to a fleshy pseudobulb: If. broad, plicateveined, contracted to the petiole: scapes erect from the rhizome, few-sheathed; fls. rather large, pedicelled; sepals subequal, free, spreading, narrow; petals similar to the sepals or at the base narrower and substipitate, labellum affixed to the base of the column, spreading, sometimes 2-auricled at the base, column elongated, slender: fr. a caps. About 7 species in Trop. Amer. P. Charlesworthii, Hort. Infl. long and arching, bearing about 50 fls. which are 1 in. across; sepals broad, yellowish, closely mottled with pale red-brown, the upper abruptly turned back; petals linear, twisted, yellow, slightly marked with red at the base: lip long, narrow, brownish with whitish hairs. British Guiana. Intro, abroad and offered for sale there. The following species may have been cult.: P. barbota, Reichb. f. (Cycnoches barbatum, Lindl.); P. gratiosa, Endres & Reichb. f.; P. lepida, Lind. & Reichb. f.; P. muscifera, Reichb. f. (Cycnoches musciferum, Lindl. & Paxt.) ; and P. vittala, Reichb. f. (Houlletia vittata, Lindl.). Warmhouse plants. F. Tracy Hubbard. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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