Epidendrum pubiflorum C.Schweinf.1943 GROUP Amblostoma SUBGROUP Amblostomioides

Side View of Flower

Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Patricia Harding and Species Identification Task Force Website

EARLIER

Common Name The Pubescent Inflorescence Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a large sized, warm growing epiphyte with a simple, cane-like, flexuous stems carrying along the apical half, subcoriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, minutely bilobed, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the earlier fall on a terminal, erect, finely pubescent, paniculate, densely many flowered inflorescence with several arcuate branches, and carrying finely pubescent, simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; IconesOrchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 055 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing

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