Pachyphyllum hispidulum (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. 1965 SECTION Orchidotypus
Side angle of flowers in situ Cundinamarca Colombia 4/24
Photos by Jay Pfahl .©
Photo by Franco Pupulin.©
Flowers begining the fertilized stage
Another angle of Flowers begining the fertilized stage
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
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Common Name The Shaggy Pachyphyllum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, at least Cundinamarca and Boyaca departments of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in upper montane cloud forest and disturbed primary cloud forests at elevations of 2600 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold and pendant growing epiphyte with weak, basally branching stems enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying fleshy, distichous, falcate-lanceolate to elliptic, rough and pointy surfaced, acute, diminishing in size towards the apex, basally clasping leaves to the hispidulous, sheaths with a pair of stipule-like appendages on each side of the articulation that blooms in the spring through summer on an axillary, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with minute flowers.
In Colombia most always on dead dry, mossy branches and small mossy dead vines
Synonyms *Aeranthes hispidula Rchb.f. 1876; Campylocentrum hispidulum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1903; Dichaea microscopica Kraenzl. 1923; Fernandezia hispidula (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase 2011; Orchidotypus hispidulus (Rchb.f.) Senghas 1995; Orchidotypus muscoides Kraenzl. 1906; Orchidotypus vareschii Foldats 1957; Pachyphyllum muscoides (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchids of Peru Vol 4 Schweinfurth 1961 as P muscoides;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 5 Foldats 1970 drawing fide;
Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicaum Plate 1476 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing ok;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995 as Orchidotypus hispidulus;
Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroideae Jimenez Hijo 2014;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Orchidotypus hispidulus photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Fernandezia hispidula photo fide
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