Pachyphyllum costaricense (Ames & C.Schweinf.) L.O.Williams 1938

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

Full Shade Cool Cold Winter

Common Name The Costa Rican Pachyphyllum

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 2000 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a repent stem enveloped by loose, imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying densely distichous, oblong, acute to shortly apiculate, spreading leaves that blooms in the winter on a lateral, short, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with funnel-shaped flroal bracts.

Synonyms *Centropetalum costaricense Ames & C.Schweinf. .1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Schedul. Orchid. 10: 110.1930 as Centropetalum costaricense; *Lilloa 3: 481.1938; Flora Costaricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae Mora and Atwood 1999