Epidendrum rhizomaniacum Rchb. f. 1878 GROUP Difforme

Another AnglePhoto by Walter Teague

Common Name The Rhizome Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in western Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations of 250 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with cane-like, flattened stems enveloped by inflated leaf sheaths and carrying ovate, apically bilobed leaves articulated to the stem and blooms at most any time of the year on an apical, very short inflorescence with 2 flowers that arise successively for several years from the same cane

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 2 1963 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 094 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 094 Dodson 1989 see observations; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 972 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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