Epidendrum garayi Løjtnant 1977GROUP Kalopternix Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Garay's Epidendrum [American Botanist current]

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Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 3000 to 4000 meters as a pendant, cold growing epiphyte

Synonyms *Pleuranthium cardiochilum Garay1953

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 501 Vasquez & Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 120 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1994; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 337 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section;

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