Epidendrum corymbosum Ruiz & Pav 1798 GROUP Schistochilum SUBGROUP Elongatum Photo by © Ecuagenera and Their Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Corymb Forming Epidendrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 1600 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte and occasional terrestrial with a sub-erect, leafy stem enveloped completely by imbricating, tubular, distichous sheaths and carrying oblong-elliptic to elliptic, basally clasping,acute, dark green, subcoriaceous leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, very densely, successively many flowered, racemose inflroescence holding the flowers in a corymb and having successive, subsequent basal branches on the inflorescence forming flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruvianum Plate 241 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 714 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section

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