Epidendrum zosterifolium F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 GROUP Alpicolum Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Strap-Shaped Leafed Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador in dense forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a simple, cane-like, flexuous, ancipitous stem carrying 3 to 7, oblong, unequally bilobed apically, subcoriaceous leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 5" [12.5 cm] long, racemose, arching, foxtail-like, many flowered inflorescence with as long to twice as long as the ovary, acuminate floral bracts and carrying successively opening, the middle ones opening first flowers witha spicy, strong, diurnal fragrance

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 406 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 434 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 4 plate 476 Hagsater & Salazar 2001 see recognition section;Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1199 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1199 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008

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