Prosthechea campos-portoi [Pabst] Higgins 1997
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name Campos Porto's Prosthechea [Director of Rio Botanical Garden 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil occuring on tree trunks in the Atlantic forest as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a thick, flexuous, ash gray rhizome from which arise a slightly wrinkled, compressed, ovate pseudobulb enveloped almost completely by a sheath and carries a single, ovate, acute leaf that blooms in the Brazilian summer on a terminal, to 2" [5 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence holding the large flowers at leaf height.
This plant can be confused with P kautskyi but the major difference is P kautskyi has two apically rounded leaves while A campos-portoi has a single apically acute leaf.
Synonyms Anacheilium campos-portoi [Pabst] Pabst, Moutinho, Pinto 1981; *Encyclia campos-portoi Pabst 1962;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 29: 62 Pabst 1967 as Encyclia campos portoi;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium campos-portoi;
*Phytologia 82: 377 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 Prosthechea campos-portoi drawing/photo fide;
Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 18: 750 Campacci 2022 as Anaceilium campos-portoi
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