!Psygmorchis pusilla [L.] Dodson & Dressler 1972
Photo by ©, Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo by Jerzy Dziedzic
Photo by Danny Lentz
Plant and Flower in situ Ecuador Photo by Lourens Grobler
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Common Name The Tiny Psygmorchis
Flower Size 1" [to 2.5 cm]
Found from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela, Surinam, Guyana and French Guyanan on trees and shrubs in pastures, coffee plantations and hot humid forests at elevations 500 to 950 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, fan-shaped, twig epiphyte with numerous, bilaterally compressed, lanceolate-subfalcate, acute, subfleshy leaves that blooms at mostany time of the year on a short, 3/4" [2 cm] axillary, single flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts that are smaller than the ovary and all is shorter or equal to the length of the leaves.
Synonyms Cymbidium iridifolium Sw. ex Steud. 1840; Cymbidium pusillum Sw. 1799; *Epidendrum pusillum L. 1763; Epidendrum ventilabrum Vell. 1827; Erycina allemanii (Barb.Rodr.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase 2001; Erycina pusilla (L.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase 2001; Oncidium allemanii Barb. Rodr. 1882; Oncidium iridifolium H.B.K. 1816; Oncidium pusillum [L.] Rchb.f 1861; Oncidium pusillum var. megalanthum Schltr. 1924; Psygmorchis allemanii (Barb.Rodr.) Garay & Stacy 1974; Tolumnia pusilla (L.) Hoehne 1949
References sigpicta.htm Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Oncidium pussilum; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Oncidium pussilum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Oncidium pusillum; Das Pflanzenreich Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as O pussilum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 87. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Oncidium pusillum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 66. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Oncidium pusillum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 151. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Oncidium pusillum; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:115 Schlechter 1924 as Oncidium pussilum var megalanthum; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Oncidium pusillum drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Tolumnia pusilla drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 3 1957 as Oncidium pusillumphoto fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 as Oncidium iridifolium drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as Oncidium pusillum; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 as Oncidium pussilum photo fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Oncidium pusilla drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 10 1960 as Oncidium pusillum; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Oncidium pusilla; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 as Oncidium pusillumdrawing plant only; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Oncidium pusillum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Oncidium pusillum; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as Oncidium pusillum; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 #4 1968 as Oncidium pusillum photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Oncidium pusillum; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 5 Foldats 1970 as Oncidium pusillum drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 as Oncidium pussillum not = O pumi; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 276 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1143 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 3 1987 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 9 1987 photo fide; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0162 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0289 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 1/2 1993 as Psygmorchis iridifolia drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 drawing/photo fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Retana 1999 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as Erycina allemanii; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as Erycina pusilla; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 751 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as Erycina pusilla drawing ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium pusillum; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo ok; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2004; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo good; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Erycina pusila photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Erycina pusilla; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Erycina glossomystax photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 as Erycina pusilla photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 as Erycina pusila photo fide Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo as Erycina pusilla fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Erycina pusilla photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 as Erycina pusilla photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 as Erycina pusilla photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 84 #1 2020 as Erycina pusilla photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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