| Campylocentrum micranthum photo C. Solimbergo | ||
| (Campylocentrum colombianum) |
| taxonomy | described by | (Lindley) Rolfe, Robert Allen |
| published in |
Orchid Review 11 (128) : 245 august 1903 |
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| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Vandeae | |
| subtribe | Angraecinae | |
| genus | Campylocentrum Bentham 1881 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origin | Caribbean, Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, |
| Tabasco, Veracruz), Belize (Cayo, Toledo), Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Escuìntla, Izabal, Petèn, Dolores, | ||
| Retalhuleu, Santa Rosa, Suchitepèquez), Honduras (Atlàntida, La Ceiba, Tela, Comayagua, Omoa, | ||
| Catacamas), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Heredia, Sarapiqui, Limòn, | ||
| Puntarenas, Osa), Panama (Bocas del Toro, Canal Area, Darièn, Panamà), Guyana, Suriname, | ||
| Ecuador (El Oro, Guayas, Loja, Los Rios, Pastaza, Pichincha), Colombia (Antioquia, Bolivar, | ||
| Yotoco, Valle del Cauca), Peru, Bolivia (Velasco, Santa Cruz, Guarayos), Brazil (Bahia, Lençois, | ||
| Serra Languinha, Amazonas, Manaus, Reserva Ducke, Acre Tarauacà) | ||
| altitude | 0 - 1666 m (0 - 5500 ft) | |
| habitat | habitat climate informations from Tuluà (Valle del Cauca, Colombia) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
| (no winter season, more abundant rainfall) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 800 m / 2640 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Tuluà this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 16 m' to 11 h 44 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | 1,5 cm (0.6") axilary |
| nr flowers | 10 - 12 | |
| size | single flower 0,3 L 0,2 cm (0.12" L 0.08") - spur 0,5 cm (0.2") - inflorescence 1 L 1 cm (0.4" L 0.4") | |
| duration | ≈ 20 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 50 - 60 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
