Dimerandra rimbachii (Schltr.) Schltr. 1922
Photo by © Leslie A Garay
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Catherine Woodward, Ph.D
Drawing by © Catherine Woodward, Ph.D
Common Name Rimbach's Dimerandra
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations of 50 to 400 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, leafy stems carrying linear-oblong to linear-ovate, subcoriaceous, flat, articulate to the leaf sheaths, sessile leaves that blooms in the fall through winter on a terminal, erect, very short, successively few flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Dimerandra tenuicaulis (Rchb.f.) Siegerist 1986; Epidendrum rimbachii Schltr. 1921; Epidendrum stenopetalum var. tenuicaule Rchb.f. 1878
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Otia Bot. Hamburg. 1: 12 Rchb.f 1878 as Epidendrum stenopetalum var tenuicaule;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 167 Schlechter 1921 as Epidendrum rimbachii;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 44 Schlechter 1922
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30: 212 Siegerist 1986 drawing fide
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30: 213 Siegerist 1986 as D tenuicaulis; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
