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Orchid Species: Prosthechea pygmaea

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Prosthechea pygmaea is an orchid species identified by (Hook.) W.E.Higgins in 1998.
Genus
Prosthechea (Psh.)
Grex
pygmaea
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Hook.) W.E.Higgins
Year
1998
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ORIGIN: Found only in eastern Cuba in rainforests on trees at elevations of 400 to 1000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Sympodial, caespitose, mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an ovoid-fusiform, acute, abruptly contracted at the base pseudobulb carrying 2 to 4, shiny, ovoid, rouneded to minutely apiculate, margin crenulate in the upper 1/3, mid rib prominent below, impressed above, conduplicate and obtuse below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter through early summer on an apical racemose, erect, peduncle with 3 to 4 bracts, .6 to 2 [.6 to 5 cm] long, simultaneously, 1 to 8 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Epidendrum Epi uniflorum 1839 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Anacheilium Ahl pygmaeum 2005 (Hook.) Baptista
Add+ Encyclia E triptera 1971 (Brongn.) Dressler & G.E.Pollard
Add+ Epidendrum Epi hioramii 1960 (Acuña & Roíg) Acuña & Alain
Add+ Epidendrum Epi monanthum 1840 Schltr.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi pygmaeum 1834 Hook.
Add+ Hormidium Horm hioramii 1936 Acuña & Roíg
Add+ Hormidium Horm humile 1920 (Cogn.) Schltr.
Add+ Hormidium Horm pygmaeum 1883 (Hook.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Hemsl.
Add+ Hormidium Horm tripterum 1898 (Brongn.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Hormidium Horm uniflorum 1841 Heynh.
Add+ Lanium Lan hioramii 1980 (Acuña & Roíg) H.Dietr.
Add+ Microstylis Mst humilis 1906 Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Encyclia E pygmaea 1961 (Hook.) Dressler
Add+ Coelogyne Coel triptera 1834 Brongn. in L.I.Duperrey
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