Epidendrum laxifoliatum Schltr. 1920 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Elongatum
Photo By © Padre Perdo Ortiz
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter
Common Name The Lax Leaved Epidendrum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with simple, strict, cane-like stem carrying a few, sub-patent to erect-patent, coriaceous, ligulate-oblong, obtuse leaves that blooms on a terminal, peduncle, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, shorter to equal to the ovary, narrowly lanceolate, acute floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 136 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 248 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Band 57 184 Figueren Atlas Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing/photo fide
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