Epidendrum acuminatum Ruiz & Pav. 1798GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Alpicolum Photo by © Alejandro Calderon Gonzalez

Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Acuminate Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 2100 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, leafy stem carrying linear, acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect then arching, racemose, 6.4" [16 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence enveloped by 2 elongate, tubular, acuminate bracts and with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, variable in length floral bracts.

Synonyms Epidendrum melinoacron Schltr 1921; Epidendrum tequendamae F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 9: 88. 1921 as E melinoacron; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 444 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing not even close

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