Epidendrum chlorinum Barb. Rodr. 1881

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto

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Common Name The Greenish Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]

Found in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains of Minas Gerais Espiritu Santo and Sao Paulo states, Brazil at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium [45 cm] sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial on high mountain ridges beneath scrub in coarse grasses with a drooping cane-like stem enveloped by lefbearing sheaths with the lower third being deciduous and carrying deep, green, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, 2" [5 cm] long, 7 to 12 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Epidendrum chloranthum Barb. Rodr. 1877 Nom Ilegal

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;