Epidendrum wrightii Lindl. 1858 GROUP Schistochilum SUBGROUP Secundum
Another cluster Neat! Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Wright's Epidendrum
Found in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba at elevations of 200 to 1300 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing, erect reedstem epiphyte with ovate-elliptic, acute, alternate leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, short, several to many flowered, subumbellate racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured cane occuring in the spring through fall and needs even, drier conditions, year round with bright light, I grow mine attached to tree fern.
Synonyms Amphiglottis wrightii (Lindl.) Acuña 1939; Epidendrum nasutum Rchb.f 1868
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 7 Plate 701 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 8 Plate 848 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section
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