Epidendrum calanthum Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854 GROUP Schistochilum SUBGROUP Calanthum COMPLEX Flexuosum Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Different Color Variety Photo courtesy of Glen Ladnier

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Common Name The Beautiful Blooming Epidendrum

Flower Size to 1" [2.5 cm]

Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador are the locales for this pretty, medium to large sized, reedstem terrestrial or epiphyte from elevations of 220 to 2200 meters in tropical montane forests with lightly fractiflex stems enveloped basally by a few, scarious leafless sheaths and carrying above several, elliptic, acute, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms on a terminal, 8" [20 cm] long, few flowered, subumbellate inflorescence arising on a mature stem with ellitic, conduplicate leaves that occurs in the late spring and summer and is an hot to cool growing orchid that likes wet humid conditions and can take some full sun. This species is often found in conjunction with ants and may benefit from their presence.

Synonyms Epidendrum caucae Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum chrysostomum Rchb. f. 1856; Epidendrum decipiens Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum filomenoi Schltr. 1921; Epidendrum huanucoense Schltr. 1921; Epidendrum ibaguense var. confluens (Lindl.) C. Schweinf. 1944; Epidendrum laetum Schltr. 1919; Epidendrum paytense Rchb. f. 1855; Epidendrum pristes Rchb. f. 1886; Epidendrum schomburgkii var. confluens Lindl. 1853

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as E caucae; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as E filomenoi; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as E huancoense; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum ibaguense var confluens; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970 as E ibaguense var confluens; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 040 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 8 2004 as Epidendrum deciepens; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1150 see recognition section Hagsater & Sanchez 2008; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1171 see recognition section Hagsater & Sanchez 2008;

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