Epidendrum campaccii Hágsater & L. Sánchez S. 1993 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

to Late THROUGH MID

Common Name Campacci's Epidendrum [Marco Antonio Campacci, discoverer of type, Brazilian]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil at elevations around 700 meters and part of the E difforme complex as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a reed-like, terete stem enveloped below by several scarious, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying4 to 9, ovate, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter through mid fall on a terminal, short, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence carrying, successively opening but eventually all at once, resupinate, afternoon intensely fragrant [carnations] flowers.

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 2 The Genus Epidendrum Part 1 Plate 117 Hagsater 1993;