!Phymatidium delicatulum Lindl. 1833
Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto
Plant en situ Alto de la Serra do Moji Dos Cruzes, Sao Paulo State Brazil elevation 150 meters
Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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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
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 3 2001
