Epidendrum cooperianum Bateman 1867
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Common Name or Meaning Cooper's Epidendrum [English Orchidist 1800's]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.2 cm]
Found in Brazil as a large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with thick, erect, leafy throughout stems carrying rigidly leathery, ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, to 5" [to 12.5 cm] long, pendulous, densely many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Epidendrum longispathum Barb Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #10 1969 photo/drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasiliense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as E longispathum; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 Drawing/photo fide
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