Selenipedium aequinoctiale Garay 1978 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another View Photo courtesy of Dr. Clark Riley and His Cypripedilum Page

Plant Photo Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

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Common Name The Equatorial Ocurring Selenipidum

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 550 to 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with elongated, slender cane-like stems carrying alternate, widely spaced, thin, lanceolate, chartaceous, plicate leaves that have basal shaething stems and blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, bracteate, several [to 10] flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 297 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 6 2005 photo;

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