Epidendrum karstenii Rchb.f. 1876 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Arbuscula Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

EARLY

Common Name Karsten's Epidendrum [German Plant collector in Colombia and Venezuela 1800's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Cundinamarca, Boyaca and Magdalena Colombia at elevations around 2600 to 2900 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing epiphyte with a many branching stem each arising from an intermediate node of the previous, simple, cane-like, terete stem enveloped by loose, tubular, striate, minutely verrucose leafless to leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, narrowly ellipitc-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on a terminal, nodding, racemose, 8 to 10 inflorescence that is 2 winged, the wings prolonged into the triangular, acuminate floral bracts that are as long as the ovaries and carry simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 949 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007

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