Epidendrum moritzii Rchb.f. 1850 GROUP Scabrum SUBGROUP Moritzii Photo by © Jose David Lacruz and his Merida Venezuela Blogspot
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Guy Van der Kinderen ©
Common Name Moritz's Epidendrum [German Orchid Collector Venezuela later 1800's]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela south to Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1500 to 3100 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a short, erect, clustered stem enveloped completetly by tubular sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, linear, obtuse, conduplicate belwo into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the summer on to 5, erect then arching, 8 to 11.2" [20 to 28 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly developed growth through a thin, erect, elongate spathe.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo #911 soso; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo #914 fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1222 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide to the second photo
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