Epidendrum convergens Garay & Dunst. 1965 GROUP Albertii SUBGROUP Allenii COMPLEX Convergens

Plant Photos by © Patricia Harding

Another Flower? Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Convergant Epidendrum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in northern Venezuela at elevations around 1300 to 1400 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with highly compressed leafy stems carrying bright green, rather thin, linear, acute lightly sulcate midnerve, dorsally carinate, narrowing into the conpuplicate, claping base leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, highly compressed, to 5" [12.5 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence with several basal imbricating bracts.

There are 2 completely different flowers represented here. I am sorry that I cannot be specific with which one fills all the requirements to be E convergens. I need more and better references.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing ok to Jay's photo; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 drawing ok to Jay's photo; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok to Jay's photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide to Patricia's photo; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok to Jay's photo; Icones Orchidacearum Part 13 Plate 1362 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section

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