Epidendrum viridibrunneum Rchb. f. 1861 GROUP Porpax Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name The Green & Light Brown Epidendrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1100 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a branching rhizome giving rise to short stems carrying distichous, fleshy, widely lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acute leaves that are articulate to the leaf sheaths below that blooms in the fall on a terminal, short, single flowered inflorescence arising through a conduplicate, acute to apiculate spathe and with the large flower held just above the apex of the stem.

Synonyms Neolehmannia viridibrunnea (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. 1976

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Neolehmannia viridibrunnea drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1128 Hagsater 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1140 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section

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