Epidendrum vieji Rchb. f. 1855 GROUP Arbuscula SUBGROUP Incomptum Photo by © Karremans, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

THROUGH EARLY

Common Name The El Viejo Epidendrum [A Nicaraguan Volcano]

Flower Size to .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in lower cloud forests on steep rather dry slopes at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a small to giant sized, warm growing epiphyte with a slender, many branched, pendant stem arising from near the apex of the previous growth and carries 2 to 3, apical, narrowly elliptic, rounded to obtuse, graually narrowing below into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in thefall through early winter on a terminal, pendant, racemose, .6" [1.5 cm] long, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with fleshy, campanulate flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bonplandia 3: 220. Rchb.f 1855; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Tropicarum Planetarum Plate 743 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 712 Dodson 1982 see notes

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