Pachyphyllum peperomioides Kraenzl. 1923 SECTION Pachyphyllum Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

Another Flower Photo by © Henry Oakley

Common Name The Peperomia-Like Pachyphyllum

Flower Size

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 2450 to 3500 meters as a cold growing epiphyte with ascending, basally branching stems enveloped completely by imbricate leaf sheaths carrying, short, elliptic-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms on shorter than the leaves, racemose, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence carrying small flowers.

Synonyms Fernandezia peperomioides (Kraenzl.) M.W.Chase 2011

References

W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroideae Jimenez Hijo 2014;

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