Epidendrum frutex Rchb.f. 1855 GROUP Frutex Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Another Plant ensitu Purace Colombia 6/07 Photo by © Roberto Angulo
Common Name or Meaning The Shrubby Epidendrum
Flower Size 1/8" [4mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in high cloud forest scrub at elevations of 2800 to 3500 meters as a giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with an elongate stem enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying all along the newer stem, linear, acute, basally clasping, articulate to the sheaths leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, then arching, paniculate, many branched, many flowered inflorescence that blooms in the spring and has gigantic fruit capsules compared to the small flowers.
This species is a giant sized, tiny flowered giving rise to capsules that are 10 to 20 times larger than the flower and are many branched masses within bushes in extremely wet to flooded lands in cloud forests with lots of lichen and mosses.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; The Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 353 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 403 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 443 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 468 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 645 Bennett & Christenson 2001;
GROUP Frutex
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