Epidendrum pichinchae Schltr.1921 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Pichincha Epidendrum [A Province of Ecuador]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador on steep embankments at elevations of 2700 to 3900 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with elongate, erect, cane-like, branching towards the apex stems enveloped by scarious, distichous, leafless below becong leafbearing above the middle and carrying small, alternate, linear, thin leaves that blooms in the summer through winter on a pendant, racemose, in whorls or cyclic, many flowered inflorescence arising without a basal sheath.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 480 Dodson 1989 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 12 Plate 1274 Hagsater & Sanchez 2009 drawing ok

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