Epidendrum arevaloi (Schltr.) Hágsater 1991

Photos courtesy of Joseph Dougherty

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Common Name Arevalo's Epidendrum [Ecuadorian Orchid Collector early 1900's]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 2100 to 2680 meters this one along a cold road through the Guacamayo Cloudforest Reserve as a giant sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte and rarely terrestrial with cane-like, terete stems that branch from the mature apice and carrying 5 to 8, erect, coriaceosu, narrowly lanceolate, unequally bilobed, minutely apiculate leaves that are held in the apical half that blooms from late spring to fall with a terminal, arching, many successively flowered, racemose inflorescence with progressively shorter, triangular, acuminate floral bracts carrying 6 to 9, simultaneous flowers.

Synonyms *Diothonea arevaloi Schltr.1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 809 Hagsater 2006