Epidendrum uleinanodes Hágsater 1999 GROUP Nanodes Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Judy Carney

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Common Name Ule's Dwarf-Like Epidendrum [German Plant Collector late 1800's]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found in Peru and Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations around 1850 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or rarely terrestrial orchid with short stems concealed by distichous, imbricating, oblong-obovate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to bilobulate apically, basally clasping leaves that are thickly rugulose and blooms in the summer and early fall on a sessile, 2 flowered inflorescence with large flowers. This species is often confused with E. schlechterianum but this one has a deeply divided clinandrum and has a very different flower color.

Synonyms Epidendrum schizoclinandrium D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 3 The Genus Epidendrum Part 2 Plate 392 Hagsater 1999; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 653 Bennett & Christenson 2001 as E schizoclinadrum; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 920 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 986 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section;

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