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Cyrtopodium is a genus of more than 40 orchid species, mostly epiphytes (growing on trees) with some terrestrial species, found from Florida and Mexico through to Argentina. Cyrtopodium andersonii is the type species, and the genus is often grown in cultivation under the abbreviation Cyrt.
Cyrtopodium, often abbreviated Cyrt in horticulture, is a genus of more than 40 species of epiphytic and terrestrial orchids found from Florida and Mexico through Argentina. Cyrtopodium is the only genus in the monotypic subtribe Cyrtopodiinae.
The type species is C. andersonii, originally described in 1812 by A.B. Lambert as Cymbidium andersonii, and in 1813 used by Robert Brown to erect his new genus Cyrtopodium.
In San Pablito, Puebla, Mexico, local Otomi artisans use an adhesive isolated from the orchid Cyrtopodium macrobulbon to patch holes in the amate paper they make. When amate is peeled off of its drying board, some portions remain adhered, resulting in holes and other defects on the sheet. Pseudobulbs of C. macrobulbon are cut, and the injured end is rubbed on a patch (also made of amate) and around the perimeter of the hole. The patch is placed over the hole and hammered into place to ensure adhesion.
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