Epidendrum microdiothoneum Hágsater & Dodson 2001 GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Tiny Diothoneum Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations of 1900 to 2200 meters as a small to large sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with terete, branching, cane-like stems carrying numerous, towards the apex of the terminal stem, linear-lanceolate, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a terminal, racemose, arching, glomerulose, short 10 to 11 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem and occuring only once and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate, very fragrant [pears] flowers.

Part of the Diothonea group

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 459 Hagsater 2001 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 732 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 706 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 847 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section;

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