Epidendrum curtisii A.D.Hawkes 1957 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Incomptum

Flower Closeup Photo by © Guy Van der Kinderen

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Curtis' Epidendrum [Editor of the Orchid Review late 1800's 1900's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Northern Venezuela (surrounding forests of Caracas) at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a branching stem carrying 2 to 3, elliptic-oblong, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a terminal, arching, racemose, laterally compressed, corymbose, 2-12 green flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem with triangular, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms Epidendrum lansbergii Rchb.f. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; . Flora de Venezuela, Volumen XV. Foldats 1970; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville, G.C.K. & Garay, L.A., 1979; Icones Orchidacearum Epidendrum Part 2 Plate 145 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidaceaerum 3 Plate 330 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 710 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 927 Hagsater 2007 fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 949 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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