Epidendrum cernuum Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth 1816 Photo by Jay Pfahl ©

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Common Name The Nodding Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found from southern Colombia to NW Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 3000 to 3300 meters as a large sized, cold growing epiphyte with a very branched stem enveloped completely by tubular, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths with the younger ones above attached to subcoriaceous, oblong,acute, obtuse and obliquely bilobed apically, articulate to the leaf sheaths below leaves that blooms in fall on a short, terminal, 3" [7.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a few to several flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004

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