Epidendrum arbusculum Lindl. 1842 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo by © Dale Borders

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Tree-Like Epidendrum

Flower Size to more than 1" [to more than 2.5 cm]

Found in Mexico south to Ecuador in elfin and cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing, reedstem epiphyte with a branching stem enveloped basally by scarious sheaths carrying distichous, articulated to the upper sheaths, coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaves that are conduplicate towards the base that blooms on a terminal, pendulous, to 8" [20 cm]long, racemose inflorescence with several to many flowers occuring in the winter.

Synonyms Epidendrum nubium Rchb.f 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidaceaerum Plate 808 Hagsater 2006