Epidendrum laceratum C.Schweinf. 1952 GROUP Scabrum SUBGROUP Soratae GROUP Cardiophyllum SUBGROUP Batesii Photo by © The Orchids of Manu Website

THROUGH MID

Common Name The Lacerate Epidendrum [refers to the margins of the lip]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in wet montane to cloud forests at elevations around 750 to 1800 [2800] meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cane-like, erect, terete, somewhat flexuous, thin stem producing new stems from the base to the middle to the upper internodes of the previous stem carrying 2 to 5, all along the stem, equidistant, linear-lanceolate, acute, unequal, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer through mid fall on a terminal, racemose, short, umbelliform, few flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to triangular, acuminate, dorsally carinate, progressively smaller, the basal ones longer the ovary floral bracts and carrying 3 to 7, successive, resupinate, sweet scented flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1134 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide;

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