Epidendrum strobiliferum Rchb. f. 1858 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Repens Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Pine Cone Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana and Venzuela as a miniature sized, caespitose, pendant to horizontal, hot to cool growing reedstem epiphyte that occurs in low disturbed forests and open fields at elevations of sealevel to 900 meters with clustered, simple to branched stems enveloped by tubular, green-purple sheaths and carrying numerous, distichous, spreading, fleshy, elliptic to linear-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves which blooms in the spring and fall on a terminal, 1 2/3" [3.5 cm] long raceme with a few, small, successive opening flowers subtended by several large bracts that the flowers just barely clear. Best mounted on tree fern or driftwood and given moderate shade and a somewhat drier winter rest.

Synonyms Epidendrum mosenii Barb. Rodr. 1881; Epidendrum rodriguesii Cogn. 1898; Epidendrum strobiliferum var. swartzii Rchb. f. ex Griseb.1864; Epidendrum verrecundum Schltr. 1922; Isochilus ramosus H. Focke 1851; Spathiger strobiliferus (Rchb. f.) Small 1933

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 42. Panama Schlechter 1922 as E verrucundum; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 733 Dodson 1982 see observations; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 740 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 994 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1169 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see Recognition; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1390 drawing fide;

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