Epidendrum angaritae Hágsater 1999
var alba Photos courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©
Common Name Angarita's Epidendrum [Colombian Orchid Collector Current]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Antioquia Colombia on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental at elevations around 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with laterally compressed towards the apex, erect, cane-like stems envelopeed completely by imbricating leafless to leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, acuminate, deep reddish-green, longitudinally veined leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, 6" [15 cm], recurring on the same inflorescence, racemose, rarely paniculate inflorescence arising on a mature pseduobulb and carrying 3 to 16 successively opening flowers with several open at any one time
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;*Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 307 Hagsater 1999
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