Epidendrum armeniacum Lindl. 1836 GROUP Alpicolum Photos by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Orange Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations of 450 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte on tree trunks with slender, erect stems that are leafy towards the apex and basally enveloped by tubular, scarious leaf sheaths and carrying ascending, narrowly lanceolate, basally clasping, acuminate, thin leaves and blooms on a densely flowered, terminal, racemose inflorescence arising on mature canes with numerous small flowers occuring in the fall and winter.

Synonyms Amblostoma armeniacum (Lindl.) Brieger ex Pabst 1977; Epidendrum macrostachya Poepp. & Endl. 1838;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0217 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 451 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 655 Bennett & Christenson 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 419 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

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