Epidendrum orchidiflorum Salzm. ex Lindl. 1831 GROUP Smaragdinum Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium
Side View of Flower ? Not Photo by © Bill Hunter
Common Name The Orchid-Like Blooming Epidendrum
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Brazil in hot tropical forests at elevations around 250 to 1300 meters as a medium to giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a slender, cane-like, rigid stems enveloped completely by imbricating, tubular, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying light green, elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, flat, stiffly coriaceous, slightly recurved margins, alternate leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, nodding, subumbellate, racemose, 15 to 20, successively flowering, becoming lateral on main inflorescence with flowers that smell of lilies in the evening.
Synonyms Epidendrum acrirachis Pabst 1955; Epidendrum caespitosum Barb.Rodr. 1877; Epidendrum garayanum A.D.Hawkes 1957; Epidendrum huebneri Schltr. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as E huebneri; Flora De Venezuela, Volumen XV Parte 3 Foldats 1970 as E huebneri; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 053 Bennett & Christenson 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 7 1996 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1152 see recognition section Hagsater & Sanchez 2008
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