!Pachyphyllum distichum Kunth 1816 Photo courtesy of of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name The Two Rowed Pachyphyllum

Flower Size 1/10" [2 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet cloud forests with very cool nights as a miniature, cold to cool growing, pseudomonopodial epiphyte at elevations of 2800 to 3200 meters with infrequently branching stems enveloped completely by persistent leaf sheaths and alternate, distichous, conduplicate, ovate leaves that blooms on a subsessile, axillary inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves with 7 to 9, campanulate, cupped flowers occuring in the spring.

Synonyms Pachyphyllum hartwegii Rchb.f. 1855

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html], Kew Monocot list [http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do], Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Dunsterville and Garay 1979; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 3 COS 1991; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 547 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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