Epigeneium pulchellum (Ridl.) Summerh. 1957 SECTION Racemosum
Photos by J B Comber and © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Beautiful Epigeneium
Flower Size 1.52" [3.8 cm]
Found in Sumatra at elevations of 1550 to 3400 meters as a cool to cold growing [reddish flowers] epiphyte or lithophyte [white flowers] with long creeping, branching rhizomes with .8 to 1.12" [2 to 2.8 cm] between each shortly and obliquely ovoid, angular, shiny pseudobulb carrying 2, terminal, oblong, a little narrowed towards the apex, unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the late winter through summer on an axillary, very short, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Dendrobium brevibulbum J.J.Sm. 1928; Katherinea pulchella (Ridl.) A.D.Hawkes 1956; *Sarcopodium pulchellum Ridl. 1917
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 34, NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001 photos fide; EPIGENEIUM(ORCHIDACEAE) OF JAVA AND SUMATRA Pg 29 Destri 2011 collection sheet fide
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