Epidendrum ciliare L. 1759

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Hairy-Lip Epidendrum

Flower Size 3 to 7" [8 to 17 cm]

Native to most all the tropical Americas in wet montane forests high in trees at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters, grows as a medium to large sized epiphyte and sometimes as a lithophyte with one or 2, elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous leaves on a clavate, compressed above, subterete below psuedobulbs with 5 to 6 nodes covered by close distichous, imbricating sheaths and blooms in the winter and early spring with fragrant flowers on a terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, racemose, few to several [5 to 6] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb. This Epidendrum has a more Cattleya-like look vegetativly than most Epidendrum.

Synonyms Auliza cilaris [L.] Salisb. 1812; Aulizeum cilare Lindley ex Stein ?; Coilostylis ciliaris [L.] Withner & Harding 2004; Coilostylis emarginata Raf. 1836; Epidendrum ciliare var. brachysepalum Rchb.f 1847; Epidendrum ciliare var. cuspidatum (Lodd.) Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum ciliare var. minor hort. ex Stein 1892; Epidendrum ciliare var. oerstedii (Rchb. f.) L.O. Williams; Epidendrum ciliare var. squamatum Schnee 1953; Epidendrum ciliare var. viscidum (Lindl.) Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum cuspidatum Lodd. 1818; Epidendrum luteum hort. ex Planch. 1858; Epidendrum sanctalucianum H.G. Jones 1975; Epidendrum santalucianum H.G. Jones 1975; Epidendrum viscidium Lindley 1840; Phaedrosanthus ciliaris (L.) Kuntze 1904 AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo;

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