Epidendrum cochabambanum Dodson & R. Vásquez 1989 GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Cochabamba Epidendrum [A Bolivian City]

Flower Size

A small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations of 170 to 2400 meters as a small szied, hot to cool growing terrestrial with terete, thin, branched towards the apex strems enveloped by tubular sheaths becoming leaf bearing towards the apex carrying, linear, subcoriaceous, dark green, asymetrically bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on terminal, pendulous, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescecnce carrying resupinate flowers

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0328 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 706 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 805 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 847 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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