Epidendrum schlimii Rchb.f. 1850 GROUP Epidendropsis Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

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Common Name or Meaning Schlim's Epidendrum [Belgian Orchid Collector 1800's]]

Flower Size .35" [8mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with short,slender, caespitose, spreading stems enveloped completely by close, tubular, leefless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying several to many, disitchous, widely spreading, linear-filiform, acute, triquetrous, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a terminal, suberect to arcuate, branched, [3" [7.5 cm] long, fractiflex, filiform, 1 to few flowered inflorescence arising through a small, lanceolate, conduplicate, carinate spathe and has similar floral bracts.

Synonyms Epidendrum tenellum Lindl. 1853

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004