Epidendrum parviflorum Ruiz & Pav.1798 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

Flower Closeup Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in dense shade in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 2400 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped completely by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, dark green, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an arcuate, terminal, few branching, 3" [7.5 cm] long, severa lflowered inflorescence

Synonyms Epidendrum gramineum Lindl. 1831; Epidendrum patulipetalum Schltr. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as E patulipetalum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0068 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 302 Hagsater & Sanchez 1999 in recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 489 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section;

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