Hormidium pseudopygmaeum Finet 1899
Photo by © Franco Pupulin
Photo by © Moises Behar
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
Comparison Drawing of H pseudopygmaeum, H racemiferum and H pygmaeum
Drawing by © N Oledrzynska/Krol
Common Name The False Dwarf Hormidium
Flower Size .64" to 1.08" [1.6 to 2.6 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama at elvations of 1400 to 2700 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly spindle shaped pseduobulbs carrying 2 to 3 leaves that blooms in the later fall on a terminal, [1.7 to 3 cm] long, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, shorter tha the pedicel floral bracts.
Differs from H pygmaea by the larger plant, longer and narrower leaves and the larger, more numerous flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia pseudopygmaea (Finet) Dressler & G.E.Pollard 1974; Epidendrum pseudopygmaeum (Finet) Hamer & Garay 1974; Prosthechea pseudopygmaea (Finet) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bull. Herb. Boissier 7: 121 Finet 1899
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 129. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 207. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 1:242 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum pseudopygmaeum drawing/photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
AOS Bullletin Vol 48 #5 1979 as Encyclia pseudopygmaea;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979 as Encyclia pseudopygmaea;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia pseudopygmaea drawing ok;
Phytologia 82: 380 W E HIggins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea pseudopygmaea;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as Encyclia pseudopygmaea photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Prosthechea pseudopygmaea;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Prosthechea pseudopygmaea;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Prosthechea pseudopygmaea photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:396 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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