Epidendrum cinnabarinum Salzmann 1831 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Vermilion Epidendrum

Flower Size to 2 1/2" [to 6.25 cm]

This is a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophytic reedstem orchid that grows in Venezuela and NE Brazil with cane-like, simple stems carrying several, alternately 2 ranked, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rounded to obtuse, coriaceous leaves where it blooms in the spring on a terminal, racemose or paniculate, to 6' [180 cm] long, few to many flowered, umbelliform inflorescence with successive opening flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005