Epidendrum bambusiforme Kraenzl.1916 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name The Bamboo-Like Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/4" [2.2 cm]

Found in Peru on steep embankments in drier regions at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters as a giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a stout, simple stem enveloped completely by imbricating tubular leaf sheaths and carrying numerous, distichous, linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, rigid, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the fall on a lateral from below the leaves, racemose, 3 1/2" [9 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescecncee carrying fleshy, nodding flowers

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References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 240 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Orchids Of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1960

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