Epidendrum renzii Garay & Dunst. 1965 GROUP Nanum SUBGROUP Nanoecallosum

Plant Photos courtesy of Linda & Mikael Karlbom in Stockholm/Sweden and their website

Common Name Renz' Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in N W Venezuela in humid forests low to the ground at elevations of 1940 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool growing, pendant epiphyte with elongate, pendant, cane-like stems carrying many distichous, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, few [4] flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Orchids of Venezuela : An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1267 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section;

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