Epidendrum anderssonii Hágsater & Dodson 1993 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Andersson's Epidendrum [Ecuadorian Orchid Specialist and Collector current]

Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in very wet, cool montane foerests on steep embankments with mosses at elevations of 1900 to 3000 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial or lithophytic orchid with an elongate, woody, cane-like stem that can branch either apically or basally and is enveloped by close, tubular, scarious sheaths and carries elliptic, acute leaves that are basally clasping to the stem and blooms at most any time of the year on a short, few flowered, terminal racemose inflorescence carrying subsessile, thick, fleshy flowers. The pictured orchid was photographed in Situ near Macchu Picchu Peru.

Synonyms Epidendrum inamoenum var. robustum C.Schweinf. 1953

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 The Genus Epidendrum Part 1 Plate 107Hagsater 1993; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 449 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004

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