Epidendrum apaganoides D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1998 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name The Epidendrum apaganum-Like Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 meters with leafy stems concealed by strongly compressed, subinflated leafless below and leaf-bearing sheaths above and carrying several, oblong, emarginate, coriaceous, conduplicate towards the base leaves that in nature blooms from the summer till early winter on a terminal, subsessile, umbellate inflorescence that can rebranch from the base with ovate floral bracts and has groups of 3 to 5 flowers.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 450 Bennett & Christenson 1998