Epidendrum delcastilloi D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1998 GROUP Nocturnum SUBGROUP Nocturnum

Drawing © by Bennett & Christenson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning del Castillo's Epidendrum [Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast and collector of species current]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Pasco province of Peru in hot montane forests at elevations around 250 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, strongly compressed, dilated gradually above stems enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close, tubular, scarious, strongly complanate sheaths carrying about 2 to 3, distributed all along the apical 1/3 of the stem, lanceolate, tapered to the conduplicate base, acute apically, yellow green leaves that blooms in the later winter through spring on a terminal, subsessile, 2 branched, each branch successively single to 2 flowered inflorescence arising through a very small spathe and carrying wide spreading flowers with the exterior of the sepals pale yellow with pale rose veins, the interior surface pale yellow [green when just opening], the petals are very pale cream yellow to green, the lip with white lateral lobes the midlobe pale yellow and the column pale cream white.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceaeum Peruviarum Plate 457 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014

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