Pachyphyllum crystallinum Lindl. 1846

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Crystal-Like Pachyphyllum

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru on scrubby trees at elevations of 3000 to 4000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a scandent stem enveloped by loose, imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying fleshy, elliptic-ovate, apiculate leaves with hispidulous margins that blooms in the summer and fall on a short, lateral, racemose, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with minute flowers.

Synonyms Pachyphyllum stuebelii Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Orchid. Linden. 18. 1846; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P stuebelii; Flora Costaricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae Mora and Atwood 1999

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