Campylocentrum fasciola (Lindl.) Cogn. 1906 SECTION Dendrophyllopsis Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Mark Nir

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Common Name The Enveloped Campylocentrum

Flower Size 1/16" [2 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, monopodial, leafless epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters with wiry green roots that blooms on many [6 to 10] subfilliform, terete, straight, 3 1/4" [8 cm] long, densly distichous, many flowered, racemose inflorescence with nonresupinate flowers occurring in the summer and fall but most likely year-round.

Synonyms Aeranthes fasciola (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1864; *Angraecum fasciola Lindl. 1840; Angraecum weigeltii Rchb. f. 1849; Campylocentrum lankesteri Ames 1923; Campylocentrum loretoense Schltr 1921; Campylocentrum sullivanii Fawc. & Rendle 1909

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Edward's Bot. Reg. 26: sub t. 68. 1840 Angraecum fasciolum; Walp. Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 902. 1864 as Aeranthus fasciola; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as C sullivanii; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as C sullivanii drawing fide; Schedul. Orch. 4: 57. 1923 as C lankesteri; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as C loretoense; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976. Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 48-49 Vandeae 1986 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo ok; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Tobisch 1995; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; ; Orchidaceae Antillensis Nir 2000; Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2006; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; aOrchids of Guatemala and Belize AMes & Correll 1985; Orchids of Panama Williams 1980; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 1 1993 drawing fide; ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1960; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1205 Hamer 1985 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 407 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 014 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 10 2006 photo;

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