Pachyphyllum crystallinum Lindl. 1846 Photo by © Henry Oakley
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Common Name The Crystal-Like Pachyphyllum
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru on scrubby trees at elevations of 3000 to 4000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a scandent stem enveloped by loose, imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying fleshy, elliptic-ovate, apiculate leaves with hispidulous margins that blooms in the summer and fall on a short, lateral, racemose, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with minute flowers.
Synonyms Pachyphyllum stuebelii Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Orchid. Linden. 18. 1846; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P stuebelii; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 343 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as P steubelii drawing hmm; Flora Costaricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae Mora and Atwood 1999; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo not; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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