Epistephium lucidum Cogn. 1893 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista photo by © Cassio van der Berg and Orchidstudium

Plant and Flowers in situ Brazil before and after fire Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista photo by © Lou Menzes

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Common Name The Shining Epipstephium

Flower Size 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil in dry areas in savannahs, along watercourses and in the transition between fields and forests with leathery leaves as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a stout stem carrying reticulate veined, acute to obtuse, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a teminal, erect, successively several flowered inflorescence with short, acuminateacute floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 10 1998 photo; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide

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