Epidendrum caldense Barb.Rodr. 1881
Photos by © Luiz Filipe Varela and his Flicker website
Common Name The Caldas Epidendrum [Pocos de Caldas, a town in southwestern Minas Gerais]
Flower Size more than 1/2" [more than 1.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio do Sul states of Brazil as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with thin, cane-like stems carrying alternate, linear, acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, shorter than the leaves, simple, few flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Epidendrum hatschbachii Schltr. 1926; Epidendrum paulense Cogn. 1898
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidacearum Brasiliense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing fide; Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo good
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