Epidendrum suinii Hágsater & Dodson 2001 GROUP Cuchibambae Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Suin's Epidendrum [Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations of 1400 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cane-like, slightly compressed stems enveloped completely by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 6 to 10, evenly distributed along the stem, progressively larger, obloquely lanceolate, bilobed and aristate apically, basally clasping leavves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, distichous, short, fractiflex, 1 to 3, successively flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem through an apical conduplicate spathe and carrying non-resupinate flowers with one to 2 open at any one time.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 4 Part 3 Plate 490 Hagsater 2001 drawing fide