Epidendrum ellipticum Graham 1894 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Elongatum

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Another Color Form in situ Sao Paulo state Brazil

Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Elliptic Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Brazil and Paraguay as a large sized, warm to cool growing, reed stem, terrestrial orchid with erect canes carrying oblong, rigidly leathery, obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, with a gradually elongating almost head-like corymb at the apex of the inflorescence.

Synonyms Epidendrum crassifolium Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum ellipticum var. flavum Lindl. 1840; Epidendrum juruaense Cogn. 1906;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 69 1919; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing ok; Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen #2 5-8 tafel 3 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as E crassifolium drawing hmm; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 as E crassifolium photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo ok

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