Epidendrum schunkei D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1998 GROUP Difforme Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Schunke's Epidendrum [Original Collector of Species current]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Tumbes Peru in seasonally dry forests as a medium sized epiphyte with erect stems enveloped by distichous, imbricating, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths each carrying, alternate, distichous, oblong-elliptic, emarginate, recurved leaves that blooms in the fall through winter on a terminal, subsessile, umbellate inflorescence arising through a complanate, subinflated, tubular spathe and carrying 4 to more flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 471 Bennett & Christenson 1998

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