Epidendrum amazonicoriifolium Hágsater 2001 GROUP Spathiger SUBGROUP Coriifolium Photo by © Muestros Neotropicales de Herbario

Common Name The Amazon Growing Coriifolium-Like Epidendrum [refers to the successive flowering of this species]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela and Peru in cloud, elfin and other wet forests at elevations of 950 to 1950 meters as a small to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, simple, laterally compressed, ancipitous stems carrying 3 to 4 [6], distichous, narrowly oblong, unequally bilobed apcally, subcoriaceous, green leaves that blooms at any time of the year on an apical, from a mature growth, racemose [occasionally 1 branched], distichous, erect, flexuous, 8" [20 cm] long, laterally compressed, ancipitous, successively to 20 flowered inflorescence with much longer than the ovary, conduplicate, acute, spaced apart floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 409 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001;

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