Epidendrum bracteolatum C. Presl 1827 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

THROUGH LATE

Common Name The Small Bracted Epidendrum

Flower Size 1 11/4" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in dry forests as a medium sized, hot growing, thick, reedstem epiphyte at elevations of 30 to 300 meters with elongate, slightly swollen, several noded pseudobulbs enveloped by dry, triangular, scarioius sheaths carrying 2 to 3 apical, narrowly elliptical leaves that are condulplicate below that blooms in the fall through late spring on a terminal, 16" [40 cm] long, racemose, many flowered [in the upper third] inflorescence arising on a newly mature pseudobulb and carries night fragrant flowers. The white flowers and elongate pseudobulbs with 2 to 3 apical leaves distinguish this species.

Synonyms Epidendrum collare Lindl. 1843; Epidendrum leucopyramis F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 078 Dodson 1980 as Epidendrum collare; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002

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