Epidendrum leeanum (Rchb.f.) Hágsater 2008 GROUP Psilanthemum Photo by Lloyd Gross and his Flickr photo website

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Common Name Lee's Epidendrum [Orchid Grower in England 1800's]
Flower Size to 1/2" [to 1.25 cm]
Found in Colombia in the llanos orientales and the foothills of the cordillera oriental and in Venezuela in the cordillera Costanera at elevations of 100 to 400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with fusiform,, homoblastic pseudobulbs enveloped basally by tubular, striate, scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, aggregate towards the apex, alternate, articulate, erect-spreading, oblong to lanceolate, subacute, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the fall through mid spring on a abortive pseudobulb so as to appearbasal from the rhizome, racemose to paniculate, compact, slightly arching, terete, thin, 13 to 20 flowered inflorescence with 4 to 6 tubular bracts and triangular, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts. and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate, fragrant flowers.
Differs from E stamfordianum in the shorter plant with proportionately thicker pseudobulbs, smaller, greenish yellow with lilac-rose spots and a lip and column that is white tinged with pink and red dots.
Synonyms *Epidendrum stamfordianum var. leeanum Rchb.f. 1888
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1137 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide;
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