Epidendrum simulacrum Ames 1923 GROUP DifformeSpecimen by © Powell and The Epidendra WebSite

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Common Name The Look Alike Epidendrum [refers to this species similarity to E firmum]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Panama in rainforests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete, slightly flexuous stems and carrying 4 to 10, all along the stem, coriaceous, terete, elliptic, retuse apically leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, occuring only once, sessile, subcorymbose, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, widely ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Epidendrum difforme var. simulacrum (Ames) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 888 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 drawing ok;

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