!Campylocentrum micranthum (Lindl.) Rolfe 1903 SECTION Campylocentrum Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Tiny Flowered Campylocentrum

Flower Size 1/2" or less [1.25 cm or less]

This is a miniature to small sized, warm to hot growing, epiphytic, hanging, monopodial herb that is found in swampy areas in hot tropical forests on twigs in the Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Leeward, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, French Giuana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil at altitudes of 450 to 1400 meters with an elongated stem having adventichous roots and carrying alternate, elliptical leaves that clasp the stem that blooms in the late summer and fall on a 1 1/2" [3.75 cm] long, axillary, fleshy inflorescence with minute floral bracts and tiny distichous flowers occurring along both sides of the thick rachis and requires deep shade and high humidity as well as a mossy substrate on the wood or tree fern mount.

Synonyms Aeranthes jamaicense Rchb. f. & Wullschl. 1864; Aeranthes jamaicensis Rchb. f. ex Wullschl.; Aeranthus lansbergii Rchb.f 1864; Aeranthes micranthus (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1864; Aeranthus jamaicensis Rchb.f & Wullsch. 1864; Angraecum brevifolium Lindl. 1840; Angraecum jamaicense Rchb. f. & Wullschl. 1864; Angraecum lansbergii Rchb. f. 1859; *Angraecum micranthum Lindl. 1835; Campylocentrum barrettiae Fawc. & Rendl. 1909; Campylocentrum ecuadorense Schltr. 1921; Campylocentrum jamaicense (Rchb. f. ex Wullschl.) Benth. ex Fawc. 1893; Campylocentrum kuntzei Cogn. ex Kuntze 1898; Campylocentrum lansbergii (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1919; Campylocentrum mattogrossense Hoehne 1941; Campylocentrum peniculus Schltr. 1922; Campylocentrum stenanthum Schltr. 1912; Epidorchis lansbergii (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Epidorchis micrantha (T. Durand & Schinz) Kuntze 1891; Mystacidium micranthum (Lindl.) T. Durand & Schinz 1895;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Edward’s Botanical Register 21: t. 1772. 1835 as Angraecum micanthum; in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 901.1884 as Aeranthus micaranthus; *J. Bot. (M. Louis Morot) 3: 273. 1889; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 91. 1922 as C peniculus; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as C lansbergii; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Tobisch 1995; Orchidaceae Antillensis Nir 2000; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; Orchids of Panama Williams 1980; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Hamer Vol 1; An Introduction to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1887; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; 1974; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 1 1994; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1985; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1960; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Hamer 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Dodson 1980; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Campylocentrum schiedei; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2006; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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