Pachyphyllum pastii Rchb.f. 1855 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Mt Pasto Pachyphyllum [Volcano in Ecuador]

Flower Size .05" [1mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela Ecuador and Peru on moss-covered shrubs in cold windswept elfin forests at elevations of 3000 to 4000 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphytic orchid with a creeping erect, occasionally branching stem, enveloped completely by imbricating leaf bearing sheaths and carrying fleshy, elliptic, ovate, apiculate, hispidulous margined leaves that blooms at most any time of teh year on a short, axillary, lateral, .2" [6mm] long, racemose, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Ceiba LO Wms. 1956; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1375 Atwood 1989;

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