Epidendrum orbiculatum C.Schweinf. 1943 GROUP Megalospathum SUBGROUP Cupreum Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Rounded Lip Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Cuzco Peru in damp high altitude forests with a dry season from May through December at elevations around 2800 to 3150 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with curved, spreading, lightly complanate stems enveloped basally by close, tubular, scarious sheaths with and without articulated basal leaves and carrying oblong to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, thick, obtuse, conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that are minutely bilobed apically and blooms in the winter and spring on a short to 2" [5 cm], 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence arisng from a prominent, coriaceous, spathe.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidaceaeum Peruviarum Plate 052 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Icones Orchidacearum Part 7 Plate 750 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section

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