Epidendrum quisayanum Schltr. 1916 GROUP Megagastrium

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Common Name or Meaning The Quisaya Epidendrum [a town in Pichincha Ecuador]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador in upper montane cloud forests on the western slopes of the Andes as a small sized, cool to cold growing terretrial on steep embankments at elevations of 1300 to 3300 meters with short stems branching from near the base or from the midpoint and enveloped completely by distichous, leafless and leafbearting sheaths and carrying f;eshy, coriaceous, ovate, obtuse apically, dark green, narrowing below into the quasi-cordate leaves that blooms in the winter, spring or fall on a terminal, racemose, 3 to 5 flowered, often singly successive inflorescence with 2 enlarged, basal sheaths

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 483 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 373 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 in recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 417 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 in recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 482 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 in recognition section; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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