Epidendrum hugomedinae Hagsater & Dodson 2004 GROUP Bicirrhatum Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Hugo Medina's Epidendrum [Troyani, Euadorian collector, grower and discoverer of species Current]

Flower Size .4"+ [1 cm+]

Found in SE Ecuador at elevations of 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with thin, laterally compressed, cane-like stems carrying 7, suberect, fleshy, purple tinged, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, smooth, entire margined, deep green bsally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on an apical, pluriracemose, archig, over years, dense, many flowered, terete, thin, short inflorescence with the peduncle enveloped completely by a basal, widely ovate, acuminate, amplexicaul bract, and triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually shorter floral bracts and carrying up to 28, simultaneous, resupinate, sweetly fragrant at noon flower.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Fascile 7 The Genus Epidendrum Part 4 Plate 713 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; *Icones Orchidacearum Fascile 7 The Genus Epidendrum Part 4 Plate 745 Hagsater 2004; Icones Orchidacearum Fascile 7 Plate 795 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo;

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