Epidendrum jejunum Rchb. f. 1878 GROUP Difforme Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in swamps, beach vegetationa and lower wet montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with cane-like, laterally compressed, slightly fractifex stems enveloped completely by tubular leaf bearing sheaths carrying a few, linear, basally clasping, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, very short, erect, succesive flowering inflorescence carrying 1 to 5 flowers.

Synonyms Epidendrum dentiferum Ames & C.Schweinf.1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 27 Hagsater and Salazar 1990; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 086 Dodson 1980; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 487 Hagsater 2001 see recognitoon section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 824 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 941 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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