Epidendrum criniferum Rchb. f. 1871 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

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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 ; 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