Plant and Flower Photo by © Mikael Karlbom and his Flickr orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Constanza Dendrophylax [A town in Dominican Republic]

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic in mixed pine/broadleafed forests within thickets at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with rhizomatous stem giving rise to gray-tan, numerous, fasciculate, filiform, glabrous roots that blooms in the spring on numerous, fasciculate, erect, filiform, simple to dichotomously branched, setaceous-hirsute, to 2.8" [7 cm] long overall, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, acute to obtuse, setaceous-hirsute floral bracts and carrying small, hyaline flowers.

Synonyms *Campylocentrum constanzense Garay 1969

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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