Epidendrum ellipticum Graham 1894

GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Elongatum Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Elliptic Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Brazil and Paraguay as a large sized, hot to warm growing reed stem terrestrial orchid with erect canes carrying oblong, rigidly leathery, obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, with a gradually elongating almost head-like racemse at the apex inflorescence

Synonyms Epidendrum crassifolium Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum ellipticum var. flavum Lindl. 1840; Epidendrum juruaense Cogn. 1906;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen #2 5-8 tafel 3 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 as E crassifolium photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo ok

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