Epidendrum raphidophorum Lindl. 1853

Another Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The ? Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Peru on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 2900 meters as a giant sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, terete below where often branched, ancipitous dilated above stems entirely enveloped by tubular, sometimes evanescent, leafless to leafbearing sheaths and carrying 6 to7, distichous, spreading, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, obtuse, deeply clasping basally leaves that blooms on a terminal, arcuate to nodding, racemose, to 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising through 1 to 3, large, imbricating, conduplicate spathes and apicular, somewhat elongate floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959

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