Campylocentrum pachyrrhizum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1908 SECTION Dendrophyllopsis Photo courtesy of Lisa Wood and Andy Nelson
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Common Name Thick Rooted Orchid - The Broad-Rooted Campylocentrum
Flower Size 1/4" or Less [.625 cm]
Found in the western everglades in Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guyana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador and Brazil as a leafless, monopodial epiphyte at elevations of sea level to 1400 meters where they bloom in the late winter and spring with an erect, to 1 1/2" [3.75 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with prominent reddish brown bracts giving rise to inverted, 2 ranked flowers appearing on both sides of the rachis, that arises from the center of the root ball in the late winter and spring. This photo is of the plant and fruits only, sometime soon I may have a photo of the actual flowers.
Synonyms Aeranthes pachyrrhizus Rchb. f. 1865; Aeranthes spathesceus Griseb. 1866; *Aeranthus pachyrrhizus Rchb. f. 1865; Aeranthes spathescens Griseb.1866; Campylocentrum rimbachii Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Flora 48: 279. 1865.1865 as Aeranthus pachyrrhizus; *Orchid Rev. 11: 246. 1903; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1985; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Wild Orchids of Florida Brown 2002; Field Guide to the Orchids of North American Williams and Williams 1983; Drawings of Florida Orchids Ames 1959; Orchidaceae Antillenae Nir 2000; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudin & Tobisch 1995; The Native Orchids of FLorida Luer 1972; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 1 1994; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Dodson 1980;
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