Epidendrum compressibulbum D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1998 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

Common Name The Compressed Pseudobulb Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/6" [4 mm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1000 meters with clavate, upper half compressed, lower half semi-terete psedobulbs enveloped basally by soon evanescent sheaths carrying 2 to 3, apical, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, basally claping leaves that blooms in nature in the fall on a apical, loose, many [70 to 100] flowered, 12" [30 cm] long, paniculate inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb with to 12 branches each carrying 10+, minute flowers per branch.

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 Peruviarum plate 455 Bennet and Christenson 1998