Ocampoa mexicana A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845

Plant in situ Mexico Photos by © Carlos Velazco Macias and his Naturaleza del Nuevo Leon WebPage

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Common Name The Mexican Ocampoa

Flower Size 1/4" [6.25 mm]

Found in Michoacan, Mexico, Guerrero, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Queretaro and Chiapas states of Mexico and Guatemala in humus in crevasses in pine-oak forests or evergreen cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 2700 meters as a small to medium szied, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with an erect somewhat robust stem carrying a basall rosette of 2 to 5, spotted t oabsent at blooming, oblong, elliptic or widely oblanceolate, smaller towards the apex becoming subcauline, acute to obtuse, upside green with a very fine slightly darker reticulation, downside grey green, carinate, margins slightly rippled, narrowing below into the channeled, short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall

Synonyms Cranichis mexicana (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr.1918; Ponthieva mexicana (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Salazar2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 10 Plate 1055 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide

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