Epidendrum scharfii Hágsater & Dodson 1993GROUP Difforme

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Common Name Scharf's Epidendrum [Bird collector and sometimes Orchid Collector in Ecuador current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador on trees and fence posts near streams at elevations around 1200 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, cane-like, terete, flexuous stems carrying 3 to 6, ascending, narrowly ovate-elliptic, bilobed, coriaceous, grayish-green leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, sub-umbellate, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence that occurs only once and has simultaneously opening flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 185 Hagsater & Salazar 1993

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