''Cycnoches'' is a

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orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants that are found in almost every habitat on Eart ...

s native to

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and southern

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. Also called swan necks, swan orchids, or swanworts, they are

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s found in lowland and pre-montane forests. Cycnoches ventricosum 24632810

List of species

Species accepted as of May 2025: # '' Cycnoches aureum'' Lindl. & Paxton (1852) – Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama # '' Cycnoches barthiorum'' G.F.Carr & Christenson (1999) – Colombia # '' Cycnoches bennettii'' Dodson (1989) – Peru # '' Cycnoches brachydactylon'' Schltr. (1924) – Colombia # '' Cycnoches carrii'' Christenson (1999) – Peru # '' Cycnoches chlorochilon'' Klotzsch (1838) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana # '' Cycnoches christensonii'' D.E.Benn. (1998) – Peru # '' Cycnoches cooperi'' Rolfe (1913) – Peru, Brazil # '' Cycnoches dianae'' Rchb.f. (1852) – Panama # '' Cycnoches egertonianum'' Bateman (1842) – southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia # '' Cycnoches farnsworthianum'' D.E.Benn. & Christenson (2001) – Peru # '' Cycnoches glanduliferum'' Rolfe (1892) – southern Mexico, Central America # '' Cycnoches guttulatum'' Schltr. (1922) – Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama # '' Cycnoches haagii'' Barb.Rodr. (1881) – from Colombia to French Guiana, south to Bolivia and Brazil # '' Cycnoches herrenhusanum'' Jenny & G.A.Romero (1991) – Colombia, Ecuador # '' Cycnoches jarae'' Dodson & D.E.Benn. (1989) – Peru # '' Cycnoches lehmannii'' Rchb.f. (1878) – Ecuador, Peru # '' Cycnoches loddigesii'' Lindl. (1832) – from Colombia to French Guiana, south to Brazil # '' Cycnoches lusiae'' G.A.Romero & Garay (1999) – Venezuela # '' Cycnoches maculatum'' Lindl. (1840) – Colombia, Venezuela # '' Cycnoches manoelae'' P.Castro & Campacci (1993) – Brazil # '' Cycnoches pachydactylon'' Schltr. (1922) – Nicaragua, Panama # '' Cycnoches pentadactylon'' Lindl. (1843) – Peru, Brazil # '' Cycnoches peruvianum'' Rolfe (1891) – Ecuador, Peru # '' Cycnoches powellii'' Schltr. (1922) – Panama # '' Cycnoches quatuorcristis'' D.E.Benn. (1992) – Peru # '' Cycnoches rossianum'' Rolfe (1891) – Costa Rica # '' Cycnoches schmidtianum'' Christenson & G.F.Carr (2001) – Peru # '' Cycnoches stenodactylon'' Schltr. (1922) – Panama # '' Cycnoches suarezii'' Dodson (1989) – Ecuador # '' Cycnoches thurstoniorum'' Dodson (1989) – Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador # '' Cycnoches ventricosum'' Bateman (1838) – Mexico, Central America # '' Cycnoches warszewiczii'' Rchb.f. (1852) – Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama

References

* (1832) The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants 154. * (Eds) (2009) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 5: Epidendroideae (Part 2): Epidendroideae, 21 ff. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

External links

* Catasetinae genera Taxa named by John Lindley {{Cymbidieae-stub