Epidendrum armeniacum Lindl. 1836 Photos by © Lourens Grobler

to LATE

Common Name The Orange Epidendrum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador, Peru Brazil and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations of 450 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on tree trunks with slender, erect stems that are leafy towards the apex and basally enveloped by tubular, scarious leaf sheaths and carrying ascending, narrowly lanceolate, basally clasping, acuminate, thin leaves and blooms on a densely flowered, terminal, racemose inflorescence arising on mature canes with numerous small flowers occuring in the fall and winter.

Synonyms Amblostoma armeniacum (Lindl.) Brieger ex Pabst 1977; Epidendrum macrostachya Poepp. & Endl. 1838;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 451 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------