Epidendrum elegantissimum F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.1899 GROUP MancumPhoto by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Elegant Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations of 2000 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte often found in association with ant nests or on rocks as a lithophyte and has a creeping rhizome giving rise to canelike, swollen stems carrying 5 to 7, distichous, elliptical, leaves in the upper portion and blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, branched, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature cane and has simultaneously opening, non-resupinate, fetid smelling flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 921 Dodson 1984; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1122 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1213 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section

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