Epidendrum oraion Hágsater 1993 GROUP Cristatum SUBGROUP Cnemidophorum
Side View Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Common Name The Beautiful Epidendrum
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found only in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 1600 meters as a large to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with erect, simple, reed-like, terete stems enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying all along the stem, narrowly elliptic, subacute, entire, smooth leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, arising on a mature stem, occuring ,ore than once over the years, racemose, arcuate, 8.8 to 16" [22 to 45 cm] long, successively few, several to many [12 to 24] flowered inflorescence carrying resupinate, fleshy flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 Escobar 1991 pg 197 fig A197 Type plant photo fide; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 plate 166 Hagsater & Salazar 1993 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol6 COS 1998 errata = E oraion;
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