Epidendrum criniferum Rchb. f. 1871 GROUP Cristatum SUBGROUP Cristatum Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

Fragrance Part sun Hot to Cool Winter

Common Name Bract Carrying Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 100 to 500 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered stems enveloped basally by several tubular scarious sheaths and carry densely many linear-lanceolate, acute, basally conduplicate leaves and blooms on a terminal, erect, loosely 3 to 7 flowered, compressed inflorescence with the peduncle enveloped by imbricating, long-pointed sheathing bracts with showy, fragrant, long-lived flowers occuring in the winter.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 3 1980 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 9 1984 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0061 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 044 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1114 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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