Erycina pumilio(Rchb.f.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase

WFO wfo-0000953943 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Erycina pumilio, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. a desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-12 / obs. 117102873
Erycina pumilio, photographed by DANIEL ALEJANDRO CHICA BOTERO
fig. b DANIEL ALEJANDRO CHICA BOTERO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64114882
Erycina pumilio, photographed by Oscar Marín
fig. c Oscar Marín, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29305018
Erycina pumilio, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. d Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123656761
Erycina pumilio, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. e Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 148590327
Erycina pumilio, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. f desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117078665
Erycina pumilio, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. g desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117103013
Erycina pumilio, photographed by DANIEL ALEJANDRO CHICA BOTERO
fig. h DANIEL ALEJANDRO CHICA BOTERO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63892566

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Erycina pumilio is native: Mexico Southeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Erycina pumilio, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil Southeast BZL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Erycina gnomus (Kraenzl.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase
  • Erycina hondurensis (Ames) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase
  • Oncidium gnomus Kraenzl.
  • Oncidium hondurense Ames
  • Oncidium oberonia Schltr.
  • Oncidium pumilio Rchb.f.
  • Oncidium titania Schltr.
  • Psygmorchis gnomus (Kraenzl.) Dodson & Dressler
  • Psygmorchis hondurensis (Ames) Garay & Stacy
  • Psygmorchis pumilio (Rchb.f.) Dodson & Dressler
  • Tolumnia pumilio (Rchb.f.) Hoehne

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.