Epidendrum hartii Rolfe 1894 GROUP Amblostomoides Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Hart's Epidendrum [Orchid collector 1800's]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in Trinidad and northern South America at higher elevations with an erect, terete reed-like stem carrying membraneous, linear, obtuse leaves that blooms on a terminal, pendant, irregularily much branched, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence that is just longer than the leaves and blooms in the late winter and spring.

Synonyms Epidendrum subpurum Rchb.f. 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 734 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section;

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