Epidendrum greenwoodii Hágsater 1987 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Arbuscula Photos by © Rudy Bachmann

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Common Name Greenwood's Epidendrum [Canadian Orchid Enthusiast in Oaxaca later 1900's]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Oaxaca Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in oak and pine forests often in cloudy conditions at elevaations of 1780 to 2500 meters as a cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a simple, terete, straight, cane-like stem arising from the middle internode of the previous stem and carrying 3 to 6, aggregatetowards the apex of the stem, alternate, articulate, subcoriaceous, smooth, green, margin entire, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, occuriong only once, racemose, arching, laterally compressed basally, 12 to 32 , simulataneously flowering inflorescence with sweetly fragrant flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1129 Hagsater 2008 drawing fide;

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