Epidendrum criniferum Rchb. f. 1871 GROUP Cristatum SUBGROUP Cristatum 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 ; 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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