Epidendrum gonzalez-tamayoi Hágsater 1993

GROUP Nanodes Photo by Asocciacion Mexicana de Orquideas Website

Common Name Gonzalez Tamayo's Epidendrum [Mexican Orchidist current]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero and Oaxaca Mexico on thew Pacific slopes on oaks in open oak forests at elevations of 700 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped completely by imbricationg leaf bases carrying succulent, ovate, bilobed, aristate, minutely erose-fimbriate margins, dorsally carinate green becoming suffused with purple with more light leaves that blooms in the fall on a termianal, sessile, 2 flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opeing, resupinate flowers

Differs from E schlechteriana in the brilliant green, purple infused leaves, 2 flowers and the sepals are shorter

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 136 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 drawing fide;

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