Epidendrum embreei Dodson 1982 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum

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Common Name or Meaning Embre's Epidendrum [American cocollector of species]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador in subtropical montane forests at elevations around 2000 to 2800 meteres as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with a short rhizome carrying cane-like, erect to decumbent stems enveloped by distichous, tubular, foliaceous sheaths carrying, membranaceous, narrowly elliptic, acuminate leaves that blomms at any time of the year on a terminal, paniculate, to 8 " [20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 2 to 3 narrowly triangular, acuminate, tubular sheathing bracts and each branch of the inflorescence is subtended by a narrow, elongate bract and each flower has a narrowly triangular floral bract.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 426 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 416 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 463 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition section;

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