Pityphyllum antioquiense Schltr. 1920

Flower Closeup Photos by Jay Pfahl ©

Common Name The Antioquia Pityphyllum [A Department of N Central Colombia]

Flower Size 1/4" [.62 cm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia and south to southern Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with 3/4 to 1 1/4" between each, obliquely oblong pseudobulb almost completely enveloped by brown scarious, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, terete, narrowly linear, rigid, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Pityphyllum hirtzii Dodson 1996 [Christenson Pers Comm.]

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Reportorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VII II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 6 2006 photo;

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