Epidendrum marmoratum A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Marbled Epidendrum

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

This species hails from Jalisco, Guerrero, and Oaxaca states of Mexico in pine-oak forests on the Pacific slope at elevations of 1500 to 1700 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with stoutly cylindrical, pseudobulbous, red to purple infused stems with several, leathery, broad leaves and blooms in the spring on a terminal, tall, arching, densly flowered raceme with long-lasting, successively opening flowers that needs slight shade and cooler nights.

Synonyms Auliza marmorata (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Braem 1981

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985;

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