Epidendrum pallidiflorum Hook. 1830 GROUP Mutelianum Photos by Carol Garvey courtesy of Stewart Chipka

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Common Name The Pale Flowered Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the Leeward and Windward Islands at elevations around 1300 meters in elfin cloud forests as a large sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with an erect or ascending, slender, terete, distally compressed stem enveloped completely by sheaths and carrying many, rigid, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves and blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, suberect, subdensely few to many flowered, to 9 3/4" [24 cm] long, racemose to paniculate inflorescence with triangular, acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms Amphiglottis pallidiflora (Hook.) Britton 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Orchidacearum 7 plate 711 Hagsater & Salazar 2004 see recognition section;

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