Epidendrum siphonosepalum Garay & Dunst. 1972 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Tube-Like Sepals Epidendrum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with mat-forming, branching stems enveloped completely by imbricating leaf bearing sheaths and carrying fleshy, ovate-lanceolate, distichous, acute, dorsally angled leaves that blooms on a terminal, sessile, single flowered inflorescence arising through 2 sheaths that conceal the peduncle and has flowers that do not open well.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

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