Epidendrum chanchamayodifforme Hágsater & L.Sánchez 1999GROUP Difforme Photo by The Field Museum and TheirMuestras Neotropicales de Herbario

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Chanchomayo Difforme-Like Epidenrum [A river Valley in Junin state of Peru]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Junin state of Peru at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature, warm growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, ancipitous, slightly flexuous stems carrying 5 to 6, ascending,linear to lanceolate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, single flowered, sessile inflorescence with much shorter than the ovaries, triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying a resupinate flower that does not arise through a spathe.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 322 Hagsater, Sanchez and Garcia-Cruz 1999;

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