Epidendrum campestre Lindl. 1844
Photo by © Americo Docha Neto
Plant in situ Alto de Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais State, Brazil elevation 1150 meters
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Common Name or Meaning The Savanah Epidendrum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains of Minas Gerais Brazil at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphytic orchid with erect, canelike, slightly compressed stems carrying 3 to 4, distichous, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, more or less acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer in situ on a terminal, erect, peduncle carrying 2 to 3, acuminate bracts, thin, to 8" [20 cm] long, generally racemose, sometimes few branched, laxly many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Epidendrum blandum Kraenzl. 1911; Pseudolaelia lyman-smithii R.J.V.Alves 1992
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Auliza campestris photo ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Pseudolaelia lyman-smithii; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 Drawing/photo fide
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