Epidendrum diffusum Sw. 1788 GROUP Seraphyta Photo by © Weyman Bussey.
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Common Name The Double Cleft Epidendrum
Flower Size Less than 1/2" [less than 1.25 cm]
Found in Jamaica and Central America as a medium sized, hot to cool growing reed stem epiphyte with clumped, cane-like, erect or arching, flexuous stems carrying ovate-ellip[tic to oblong-lanceolate, rounded to obtuse, amplexicaul, fleshy coriaceous leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a 12" [30 cm] long, terminal, paniculate inflorescence with many successively opening flowers.
Synonyms Epidendrum tenuiflorum Lindl. 1853; Seraphyta diffusa (Sw.) Pfitzer ex Fawc. & Rendle 1910
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Seraphyta diffusa; The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Catalogo Descriptivo de las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1938 as Seraphyta diffusum; Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979; Flora de Venezuela Vol XV Tercera Parte Foldats 1970; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 6 1995 Photo fide; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 572 Hagsater and Salazar 2002 see recognition section; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 photo fide; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez and Dressler 2005; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1118 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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