Epidendrum mancum Lindl 1844 GROUP Mancum SUBGROUP Mancum Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Partial shadeCoolColdLATEWinterEARLYSpring

Common Name or Meaning The Mutilated? Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in upper montane low, elfin cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with flattened, cane-like stems enveloped by leafless below and 3 to 4 leaf bearing sheaths above and carrying rigid, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, apically bilobed, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, simple, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature cane through 1 to 2, conduplicate spathes and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 429 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0065 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 2 2001; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 655 Bennett & Christenson 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 420 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 455 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 467 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 498 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 721 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 755 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 728 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 744 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 760 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 763 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 769 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 782 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 783 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 785 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 885 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see Recognition section;Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1173 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition section

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