Pachyphyllum micranthum Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pachyphyllum TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Full shade Cold

Common Name The Small Flowered Pachyphyllum

Flower Size

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 3400 to 3550 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect to ascending, simple to slightly branched, densely leafy stem enveloped completely by leaf sheaths carrying fleshy, attenuate basally, glabrous, falcate-spreading, linear-ligulate, mucronate leaves that blooms in the mid spring on an axillary, .08 to .12” [.2 to .3] cm long, erect-patent, nutant apically, slightly compressed, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate floral bracts and carrying small, nutant flowers

Synonyms Fernandezia micrantha (Schltr.) M.W.Chase 2011

References

W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 204 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 282 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Kolanowska and Szlachetkp 2016 drawing fide;

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