Epidendrum ardens Kraenzel 1906 GROUP Scabrum SUBGROUP Soratae Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page
Flower closeup Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey
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Common Name The On Fire Epidendrum [refers to the Flower color]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in southeastern Peru in in moss covered elfin forests or on rocky ledges at elevations of 2000 to 4150 meters as a reed stem, medium to large sized, cool to cold growing, epiphyte or lithophyte in cold wet cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 4150 meters with long, straggly, frequently branching stems enveloped basally by tubular sheaths and carries a few, erect, imbricating, lanceolate, acute, carinate, conduplicate below, dark green leaves suffused with purple and subtended by purple persistent sheaths that blooms on a subapical, laxly pendant, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, densely many [10 to 14] flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate acuminate floral bracts that cover half of the ovary and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers all occuring in the summer through fall.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 633 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 742 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 988 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1206 Hagsater 2009 drawing fide
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