Epidendrum trifidum Schltr. 1920 GROUP Andean SUBGROUP Moritzii
Photo by © Rudy Bachmann from Slo Orchids.
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
Common Name The Three Pointed Epidendrum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a flexuous, glabrous cane-like, thinly cylindrical, stem carrying 2, apical, erect-patent, narrowly ligulate, obtuse, fleshy-coriaceous leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, somewhat compressed, to 16" [40 cm] long, arcuate, subdensely many flowered inflorescence arising through an elongate, ancipitous spathe with patent, deltoid, acute floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 153 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 252 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 208 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide;
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