Campylocentrum polystachyum Rolfe 1903 SECTION Campylocentrum

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Common Name The Rich Blooming Campylocentrum

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, leafy, mat-forming epiphyte with an elongate, creeping, branching stem carrying distichous, stiff, somewhat serrate towards the apex, narrowly ovate, apiculate, slightly contracted below into the sessile base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on longer than the leaves, opposite the leaves, 1" [2.5 cm] long, distichous, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Angraecum polystachyum Lindl. 1840