Epidendrum cinnabarinum Salzmann 1831
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Vermilion Epidendrum
Flower Size to 2 1/2" [to 6.25 cm]
This is a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophytic reedstem orchid that grows in Venezuela and northeastern Brazil with cane-like, simple stems carrying several, alternately 2 ranked, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rounded to obtuse, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, racemose or paniculate, to 6' [180 cm] long, few to many flowered, umbelliform inflorescence with successive opening flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 68 Schlechter 1919; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 245 Schlechter 1920; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense 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 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 drawing/photo fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 Drawing/photo ok; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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