Epidendrum unguiculatum (C.Schweinf.) Garay & Dunst. 1976 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Turialvae Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Cassio van der Berg Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Clawed Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam, Brazil and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 100 to 300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with stems enveloped completely by several, imbricate, scarious bracts and carrying numerous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, held towards the apex leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence with each branch carrying several, spreading flowers

Synonyms *Epidendrum paniculatum var. unguiculatum C.Schweinf. 1943

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 474 Bennetii & Christenson 1998; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

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