Epidendrum pseudoanceps D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1998 GROUP Polyanthum SUBGROUP Anceps Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name The Almost-Like Anceps Epidendrum

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.5 cm]

A large sized, warm growing epiphyte of the wet montane forests of Peru at elevations around 1400 to 1800 meters with an erect, compressed, enveloped with distichous, imbricating, leaf bearing sheaths with oblong-elliptic to elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that are dark green above and dark purple below which blooms in the spring and fall on a terminal, 5" [12 cm] long arcuate to pendant racemose, umbelliform inflorescence with scarious acuminate bracts arising a a mature stem with the several flowers clustered at the apex. It differs from Epidendrum anceps by its filliform petals, a convex labellum with three raised edges and the "bilo-bulate apex of the labellum midlobe with divergent, recurved lobules." Quote by Eric Christensen

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Paphiopedilum Vol 1 & 2 Braem 1999 Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 469 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 437 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section as E forcipatum

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