Epidendrum renilabium Schltr. 1921 GROUP Cernuum SUBGROUP Renilabium Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photos Website.

Common Name The Kidney-Shaped Lip Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.15" [2.8 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in wet upper montane forests on the western pacific slopes at elevations of 1500 to 3100 meters as a to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a thick, often branching stem enveloped completely by loose, sheatha and carrying many, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rounded and often retuse apically, sessile at the clasping base leves that blooms in the summer through fallon a terminal, short to 4" [4 to 10 cm] long, , densely many flowered, nodding inflorescence carrying successive, rather fleshy flowers with the apical ones opening first.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921; Orchids of Peru First Supplement, Fieldiana Vol 33 Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 484 Dodson 1989 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 107 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 454 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 469 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 479 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 710 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 767 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 766 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1282 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1283 Hagsater 2009 drawing fide;

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