Epidendrum densiflorum Hooker 1840 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Densely Flowered Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam and Brazil in rainforests at elevations of 500 meters to 2450 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect, cane-like stems enveloped completely by leafless in the lower half and leaf-bearing in the upper half each carrying distichous, elliptic, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, paniculate, 12" [30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with large bracts at the branch bases

This plant in the photo is a segregate from the Epidendrum panaliculatum group and differs by it's large panicale, concave lip blade, small acute apical lobes and the4 3parellel lamellae of the callus extending down the mid-line to the apesx of the lip. It could be Epidendrum noackii if it is not a synonym of this species.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarun Tropicarum Plate 376 Dodson 1980; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 382 Hagsater, Sanchez & Garcia-Cruz 1999 see recognition section; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

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