Campylocentrum pachyrrhizum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1908 SECTION Dendrophyllopsis Photo by © Von Gastam
Plant and flowers 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 in moist montane forests 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; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo ok; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 3 2000; Wild Orchids of Florida Brown 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo; Field Guide to the Orchids of North American Williams and Williams 1983; Drawings of Florida Orchids Ames 1959; Orchidaceae Antillenae Nir 2000; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudin & Tobisch 1995; The Native Orchids of FLorida Luer 1972; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 016 Dodson 1980 drawing okish; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok
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