Epidendrum litense Hágsater & Dodson 1993 GROUP Nocturnum Photo courtesy of Allen Black ©

Common Name The Lita Epidendrum [Town Near where Orchid Occurs]

Flower Size 1.25" [4 cm]

Found in northern Ecuador near Colombia in montane rainforests at elevations around 640 to 800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with cane-like, erect, laterally compressed, distally ancipitous, simple stems carrying 4 to 6, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, bilobed apical, thin, ancipitous leaves held in the apical half and enveloped by tubular sheaths that blooms in the spring on a terminal, short, erect, racemose, becoming branched with age, over various seasons, successively single to several flowered inflorescence arising on mature stems and occuring over various seasons.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 152 Hagsater & Dodson 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 178 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section;

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