Epidendrum cirrhochilum F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 GROUP Bicirrhatum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Dave Alford

Common Name The Tendriled Lip Epidendrum

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in humid montane cloud forests at elevations of 650 to 1500 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep slopes with a short rhizome carrying cane-like stems entirely enveloped by tubular sheaths of which many are leaf bearing carrying distichous, spreading, narrolwy ligulate-ovate, acute, coriaceous leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, paniculate, loosely several flowered, 8" [20 cm] long inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers.

This species is part of the E paniculatum group but is separated because of the setose apices of the lobes of the lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 374 Dodson 1980; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 453 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 302 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 in recognition section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1112 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 in recognition section;

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