Campylocentrum poeppigii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1903 SECTION Pseudocampylocentrum C poeppingii AlliancePhoto by © The Lista De Orquideas Mexicanas Website
Photo by © A. Muller and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Poeppig's Campylocentrum [German Botanist in Soutrh America 1800's]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam and northern Brazil, Ecuador and Peru in riverside, deciduous and in light remnant forests at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a small sized, scrambling, hot to warm growing epiphyte with stems enveloped by close fitting leaf sheaths and giving rise to many, long running roots that may or may not attach to anything, with some embryonic, subterete, apical, greeny brown, deciduous leaves that blooms in the spring from anywhere along the stem, several, short to .6" [1.6 cm] long, very crowded, two ranked, several flowered inflorescence with small, rather shapeless, dark brown floral bracts and carrying very short lived flowers
Synonyms *Angraecum poeppigii Rchb.f. 1850; Campylocentrum kuhlmannii Brade 1941
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 Drawing good; Orquideologia Vol 15 #2-3 1982 photo good; Catalogo Descriptivo de las Orquideas Cubanos Acuna 1987; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 11 1988 photo ok; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal 2001; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Manual De Plantas de Costa Rica Volumen 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing/photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #10 2006 photo fide; Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide; Orchids of French Guiana Szlatchetko, Veyret Etal 2012 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing good; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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