Epidendrum micronocturnum Carnevali & G.A.Romero 1996GROUP Nocturnum SUBGROUP Nocturnum Photos By © Gerardo Torres and Flickr Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning The Small Nocturnum Epidendrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Guyana at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with simpe, cane-like, laterally compressed towards the apex, terete at the base stems carrying 2 to 6, distributed along the apical half of the stem, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, obtuse, slightly carinate, mucronate, basally clasping leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a termianl, racemose, becoming pluriracemose over the years, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, amplexicaul, triangular, acute to acumiante floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1350 Hagsater 2010 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1356 Hagsater 2010 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1357 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1358 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section