Epidendrum trachysepalum Hágsater 1992 GROUP Diothonea SUBGROUP Diothonea NO Photo

Common Name The Rough-Surfaced Sepal Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests and very cool wet cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing reedstem epiphyte with slender, sparsly branched, enveloped by persistent, close, tubular leaf sheaths which are leaf-bearing towards the apex, with linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that are attenuate to the conduplicate, articulated base that blooms on a terminal, 1 1/2" [3.4 cm] long, few to several [to 9] flowered, racemose inflorescence with small ovate-triangular floral bracts occuring in the spring.

Synonyms Diothonea exasperata C. Schweinf. 1951;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 657 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 732 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see recognition section

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