Epistephium hernandii Garay 1961
Inflorescence Photos by © Vladimir Dinets
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Dr Leslie Garay Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
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Common Name Hernand's Epistephium [Colombian Orchidist and scientist 1900's]
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in Venezuela and Colombia at elevations of 190 to 1550 meters as a medium to giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial on 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 ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 6 1961 photo; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; AOS Buletin Vol 71 No 5 2002 photo
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