Anacheilium campos-portoi [Pabst] Pabst, Moutinho, Pinto 1981 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Campos Porto's Anacheilium [Director of Rio Botanical Garden 1900's]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Espiritu Santo, Brazil in the Atlantic forest as a warm to cool growing epiphyte occuring on tree trunks with a thick, flexuous, ash gray rhizome from which arise a slightly wrinkled, compressed, ovate, pseudobulb enveloped almost completely by a sheath and carries a single, ovate, acute leaf that blooms in the Brazilian summer on a terminal, to 2" [5 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence holding the large flowers at leaf height. This plant can be confused with A kautsky but the major difference is A kautskyi has two apically rounded leaves while A campos-portoi has a single apically acute leaf.

Synonyms *Encyclia campos-portoi Pabst 1962; Prosthechea campos-portoi [Pabst] Higgins 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;

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