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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Prosthechea pygmaea
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) W. E. Higgins
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=82: 380. 1998
|year=1998
}}
|common_names=Dwarf butterfly orchid;dwarf encyclia;dwarf epidendrum
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Epidendrum pygmaeum
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bot. Mag.
|publication_place=60: plate 3233. 1822
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aulizeum pygmaeum
|authority=(Hooker) Bentham & Hooker f.
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aulizeum pygmaeum
|authority=(Hooker) Lindley ex Stein
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Encyclia pygmaea
|authority=(Hooker) Dressler
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hormidium pygmaeum
|authority=(Hooker) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Hemsley
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae;Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Laeliinae;Prosthechea;Prosthechea pygmaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Laeliinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prosthechea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prosthechea pygmaea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 614
|treatment_page=page 615
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>creeping, to 12 cm. <b>Stems</b>: pseudobulbs spaced 3–4 cm, fusiform, somewhat flattened, slender, 20–40 × 3–8 mm. <b>Leaves</b> 2(–3, rarely), elliptic, 25–55 × 9–13 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, sessile, 0.5 cm. <b>Flowers</b> 1–3, resupinate, successive, flowers and fruits may be present with capsules, light yellowish green to green or brownish green; sepals oblanceolate, apex acute; lateral sepals oblique, 5–6 × 2 mm; petals linear, 4 × less than 1 mm, apex acute; lip white with purple blotch on middle lobe, obreniform, middle lobe small, triangular, apex acute, lateral lobes suborbiculate, embracing column, 4 × 2 mm; anthers 1, orange; column white, 2 mm, apex 3-toothed. <b>Capsules</b> 1 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Feb; fruiting Feb–May.
|habitat=In swamps, infrequent but individual plants form large patches
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p>In Florida, flowers of some plants of <i>Prosthechea pygmaea</i> have been reported to be cleistogamous (C. A. Luer 1972).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Prosthechea pygmaea
|authority=(Hooker) W. E. Higgins
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aulizeum pygmaeum;Aulizeum pygmaeum;Encyclia pygmaea;Hormidium pygmaeum
|basionyms=Epidendrum pygmaeum
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Feb; fruiting Feb–May.
|habitat=In swamps, infrequent but individual plants form large patches
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1998
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1256.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Laeliinae
|genus=Prosthechea
|species=Prosthechea pygmaea
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