Epidendrum alsum Ridl.1886 GROUP Macrostachyum SUBGROUP Aquaticum

Inflorescence Photos By © Jany Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium

Common Name or Meaning The Fresh Epidendrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Guyana and southeastern Venezuela in open areas on shrubs and in bromeliads at elevations of 2300 meters as a larger sized, cold growing terrestro/lithophyte with an erect, often branched, fairly stout, subterete stems carrying a few, fairly thick,leathery, rigid, linear, acute, rough but shiney above, often apically hooked, margins generally recurved, baslly clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, to 4" [10 cm] long, shortly paniculate, several flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1349 Hagsater 2010 drawing fide