Epidendrum lopezii Hágsater 1999 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Lopez' Epidendrum [Colombian Nurseryman current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in upland Antioquia Colombia at elevations of 2200 to 2500 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with cane-like, terete stems carrying distichous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, dark green leaves that blooms in the winter on an apical, paniculate, very large, laxly successively numerous flowered, several branched inflorescence arising on a mature stem with resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 # 881 Escobar-COS 1994 as Epidendrum sp.; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 307 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; *Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 348 Hagsater 1999; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 446 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section;

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