Epidendrum echinatum Løjtnant 1977 GROUP Jataunsachanum Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Hedge Hog-Like Epidendrum [refers to the echinate flowers]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 600 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect, cane-like stem carrying several distichous, basally clasping, elliptic-lanceolate, acute leaves held in the upper half of the stem and blooming throughout the year on part of the leafless stem and all between the leaf axils on short, capitate, inflorescence with 5 to 6 flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 079 Dodson 1980; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 945 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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