Rhynchostele pygmaea (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1852 Photo by © Rodolfo Hernandez

Full shade ColdWinter Spring

Common Name or Meaning The Dwarf Rhynchostele

Flower Size .35" [.8 cm]

Found in Mexico and Guatemala in evergreen cloud forests at elevations of 2300 to 3100 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with clustered, ellipsoid, slightly compressed latrerally pseudobulbs enveloped basally by papery sheaths and carrying a singel, apical, erect, coriaceous, ensiform, acute-acuminate, dark green, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an axillary, 3" [7.5 cm] long, racemose, slightly compressed, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Leochilus pygmaeus (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 1895; *Odontoglossum pygmaeum Lindl. 1841; Oncidium pygmaeum (Lindl.) Beer 1854

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Orchidacearum 5 to 6 Plate 657 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide

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