Epidendrum volutum Lindl. & Paxton 1851-52 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name The Rolled Lip Epidendrum
Flower Size to 1" [to 2.5 cm]
This small sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species is found in Costa Rica and Panama on the pacific slope where it blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, erect to gracefully arching, short to 6" [to 15 cm], single flowered inflorescence arising on a new growth with fragrant, long-lived flowers.
CAUTION: I am suspicous of the veracity of this determination. Please use with caution. Said to be a part of the Coilostylis group and visually this is not happening, as well as said to arise from a newly developing pseudobulb not.
Synonyms Epidendrum radlkoferianum Schltr. 1921 Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 42. Panama Schlechter 1922; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1198 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing hmm to not
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