!Phymatidium delicatulum Lindl. 1833 Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
Photos by Americo Docha Neto
Plant in situ Alto de la Serra do Moji Dos Cruzes, Sao Paulo State Brazil elevation 150 meters
Photos by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name or Meaning The Delicate Phymatidium
Flower Size 1/5" [0.5 cm.]
Found in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo state Brazil often occuring on small mossy tree trunks at elevations around 150 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic orchid with an erect, branched stem carrying several, ensiform, falcate, subulate, usually somewhat twisted and asymmetric, semiterete, subterete to somewhat three angled, pale green leaves that blooms in the fall in situ on few to several, finely papillose, to 4" [10 cm] long, zigzag, few to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with several, widely spaced, decurrent, thickish, subulate sterile bracts and similar floral bracts.
Synonyms Phymatidium delicatulum var. curvisepalum Toscano 2007; Phymatidium myrtophilum Barb.Rodr. 1881; Phymatidium paranaense Samp. 1916
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as P myrtophilum; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs Band II 1977 Drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs Band II 1977 as P myrtophilum Drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs Band II 1977 as P paranaenseDrawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 drawing fide/photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 as P paranaense; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 as P myrtophilum; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 3 2001; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
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