Epidendrum peraltum Schltr. 1920 GROUP Pseudepidendrum SUBGROUP Paniculatum Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name

Flower Size 1" 2.5 cm

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia? in the lower reaches of wet cloud forests as a large, caespitose, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial at elevations of 1850 to 3100 with a reed-like stem enveloped by tubular, scarious, acuminate sheaths and carrying several, oblong to oblong-elliptic, ascending, thin-textured, acute and recurved apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, 4 3/4" [12 cm] long, branched inflorescence arising on a mature stem and with each branch having 5 to 6 flowers where it blooms in nature in the rainy season which is late winter and early spring.

Synonyms Epidendrum altissimum F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 249 Dodson 1980; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate supplemental Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 348 Hagsater 1999 see recognition Section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 410 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 416 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 463 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition section; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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