Epidendrum dalstromii Dodson 1984

Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name Dalstrom's Epidendrum [Swedish Botanist and Orchid Collector current]

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, cane-like stems enveloped by scarious sheaths and carrying two apical, elliptic, coriaceous, apically obtuse, basally acute leaves and blooms in the winter on a terminal, 8" [20 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped basally by a single, expanded, scarious sheath with the flowers subtended by a triangular bract.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 919 Dodson 1984 Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 708 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section;