Epidendrum andrei Hágsater & L.Sánchez 1999 GROUP Difforme Drawing by © Jimenez & Hagsater and Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name Andre's Epidendrum [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast and Collector of type current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a simple, cane-like, ancipitose, slightly flexuous stems carrying 4 to 6, all along the stem, coriaceous, elliptic, retuse to bilobed, margin entire, dorsally carinate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, sessile, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying resupinate, simultaneously opening flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 306 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 drawing fide;

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