Epidendrum polystachyum Kunth 1816 GROUP Schistochilum SUBGROUP Blepharistes Photo by © Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Rich Blooming Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry montane forests in ants nests at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with fusiform, long-tapered, sulcate, obtuse angled pseudobulb with 4 nodes, and carrying 2, ligulate, acute to obtuse, subcoriaceous, carinate below, abruptly short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, shortly paniculate, few flowered each branch inflorescence holding the flowers at the apex

The photo is most likely of E blepharistes/E funkii as the photo was taken in Cundinamarca Colombia and there are more than 2 leaves on the pseudobulbs.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 430 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 647 Bennett & Christenson 2001;

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