Epidendrum haematanthum Schltr. 1921 GROUP Schistochilum SUBGROUP Calanthum COMPLEX Flexuosum Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

Part sun Warm

Common Name The Blood Flower Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southern Peru at elevations around 1500 meters as a large sized, warm growing terrestrial? with erect, strict stems enveloped completely by both leafless and leafbearing sheaths and carrying erect-patent, oblong-ligulate, obtuse leaves that blooms on a terminal, ereect, 16 to 18" [40 to 45 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceoalte, acuimnate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921

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