Epistephium laxiflorum Barb.Rodr. 1877 Drawing by © Hoehne

Drawing Drawing by © Alfred Cogniaux and Wikimedia Commons

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Lax Flowered Epipstephium

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Sao Paulo and Goias states of Brazil as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with a sinuous stem carrying coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring through early fall on a terminal, 4 to 4.8” [10 to 12 cm] long, successively single, 5 to 6 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, very concave, oval-triangular, acute shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide

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