Epidendrum pseudoramosum Schltr. 1912 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP RamosumSpecimen by © The Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The False Racemosum Epidendrum

Flower Size .45" [1.1 cm]

Found in Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas states Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela of in montane rainforests, elfin forests, pine-oak-liquidambar forests at elevations of 1300 to 2200 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a subterete, branching, flexuous, slightly compressed stem enveloped by close fiiting, somewhat compressed, leafless and tubular, slightly rugose, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying thick, rigid, linear, oblong-lanceolate, retuse apically leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, short, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising from the branches enveloped completely by oblong-triangular, acute, conduplicate bracts, somewhat inflated, longer than the ovary, imbriccating, ovate-oblong, acute floral bracts and carrying 2 to 4 simultaneously opening, non-resupinate, apparantly odorless flowers..

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 drawing fide; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 730 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 580 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing ok

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