Epidendrum orthocaule Schltr. 1921 GROUP Frutex
Photos by © and The Orchidees en Nord S.F.O. Section Nord Website
Drawing by © Dodson
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
LATER 
Common Name The Straight Stem Epidendrum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador in bushes at elevations around 2700 to 3700 meters as a large to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with a very short rhizome giving rise to terete, erect, straight leafy stems carrying sub-erect, rigid, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-ligulate, mucronate apically leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, shortly pedunculate, erect, numerously decurved branched, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with deltoid-ovate, shortly acuminate, fleshy, as long as the overy floral bracts and carrying very fleshy, greenish, glabrous flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 79 Schlechter 1921; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: 353 Figuren Atlas Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide;
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