Epidendrum friderici-guilielmi [Lindley] Rchb.f & Warsc. 1854 GROUP Excisum SUBGROUP Friderici-guilielmii type Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name Kaiser Fredrich Wilheim II Epidendrum [German Leader 1800's]

Flower Size to almost 4" [10 cm]

A Peruvian and Bolivian reedstem, that is a large sized, caespitose, warm to cool growing epiphyte and lithophyte, found in cloud forest, at elevations of 2000 to 3000 meters with erect, cane-like, clumped stems enveloped basally by scarious, tubular bracts carrying 4 to 5, towards the apex, graduating in size, oblong-lanceolate, basally conduplicate, acute, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect to pendant, to 10" [25 cm] long, densely several to many flowered raceme with showy flowers arising on a mature cane, subtended by a spathe and minute inconspicuous floral bracts.

Synonyms Epidendrum huacapistanae Kraenzl. 1905; *Spathium friederici-guilelmi Lindley ?

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 12 1980 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 242 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 485 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition sectionOrchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004

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