Epidendrum macrum Dressler 1967 GROUP Amblostoma SUBGROUP Amblostomioides Photo and plant grown by © Marni Turkel
Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Crassula Like Epidendrum [A Succulent Plant]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Peru at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters in wet montane foretss as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect, apically leafy stem carrying 3 to 4, ovate, lanceoalte, obliquely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on aterminal, stiffly erect, shortly pedunculate, to 6.4" [16 cm] long, racemose, several to many flwoered inflorescence with minute floral bracts, pubescent ovaries and non-resupinate, long lasting, very fragrant, cupped flowers
Synonyms Amblostoma gracile Garay 1953; Amblostoma gracile var. robustum C.Schweinf. 1955
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 465 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing ok
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