Phymatidium delicatulum Lindl. 1833

Plant and Inflorescence

Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto

Plant en situ Alto de la Serra do Moji Dos Cruzes, Sao Paulo State Brazil elevation 150 meters

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Common Name or Meaning The Delicate Phymatidium

Flower Size 1/5" [0.5 cm.]

Found in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo state Brazil at elevations around 150 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphytic orchid often occuring on small mossy tree trunks and that blooms in the fall ensitu.

Synonyms Phymatidium myrtophilum Barb.Rodr. 1881; Phymatidium paranaense Samp. 1916