Epistephium hernandii Garay 1961

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Common Name Hernand's Epistephium

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Colombia at elevations of 290 to 1550 meters as a medium to giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial in rocks, on riverbanks or grassy savannahs or epiphytic in wet, humid forests with an elongate, stout, glabrous stem carrying lightly fleshy, ovoid, acute leaves with clasping leaf bases and blooms in the summer on a terminal, terete, glabrous, several to many [18] successively flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature cane.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976;