Pachyphyllum hispidulum (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. 1965 Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.©

THROUGH

Common Name The Shaggy Pachyphyllum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in upper montane cloud forest and disturbed primary cloud forests at elevations of 2600 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold and pendant growing epiphyte with weak, basally branching stems enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying fleshy, distichous, falcate-lanceolate to elliptic, acute, diminishing in size towards the apex, basally clasping leaves to the hispidulous, sheaths with a pair of stipule-like appendages on each side of the articulation that blooms in the spring through summer on an axillary, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with minute flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003