Epidendrum proligerum Barb. Rodr. 1877 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Incomptum Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Common Name or Meaning The Rich Fruit Bearing Epidendrum

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in southeastern Brazil at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or occasional terrestrial with a slender cane enveloped completely by brown, scarious, old sheaths and carrying above, a 2 to a few narrowly linear, conduplicate, acute leaves that blooms on a pendant, terminal, short, to 15 flowered inflorescence arising in the fall in Brazil.

This plant was found in a cloud forest at elevations around 300 meters near Salesopolis Brazil in dense cloud forest.

Synonyms Epidendrum proligerum Barb. Rodr. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as Epidendrum ecostatum; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

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