Campylocentrum pachyrrhizum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1908 SECTION Dendrophyllopsis C pachyrrhizum alliance
Photo by © Von Gastam
Plant on tree in situ within Big Cypress National Park
Plant on tree in situ within Big Cypress National Park closeup
Photo by © Joel Hoffman
Plant and flowers Photo courtesy of Lisa Wood and Andy Nelson
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Common Name Thick Rooted Orchid - The Broad-Rooted Campylocentrum
Flower Size 1/4" or Less [.625 cm]
Found in the western everglades in Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guyana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador and Brazil in moist montane forests as a leafless, monopodial, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of sea level to 1400 meters that bloom in the late winter and spring with an erect, to 1 1/2" [3.75 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with prominent reddish brown bracts giving rise to inverted, 2 ranked flowers appearing on both sides of the rachis, that arise from the center of the root ball.
Synonyms Aeranthes pachyrrhizus Rchb. f. 1865; Aeranthes spathesceus Griseb. 1866; *Aeranthus pachyrrhizus Rchb. f. 1865; Aeranthes spathescens Griseb.1866; Campylocentrum rimbachii Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; Flora 48: 279. 1865.1865 as Aeranthus pachyrrhizus; *Orchid Rev. 11: 246. 1903; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; Drawings of Florida Orchids Ames 1959 drawing good; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing ok; The Native Orchids of Florida Luer 1972 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #8 1975; Orchidaceae Brasilensis band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing good; pOrchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 016 Dodson 1980 drawing okish; Field Guide to the Orchids of North American Williams and Williams 1983; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; Catalogo Descriptivo de las Orquideas Cubanos Acuna 1987; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo ok; Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean Kenny 1988; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudin & Tobisch 1995 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 3 2000 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillenae Nir 2000; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Wild Orchids of Florida Brown 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchids of French Guiana Szlatchetko, Veyret Etal 2012 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing good
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