Common Name The ? Epidendrum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Peru on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 2900 meters as a giant sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, terete below where often branched, ancipitous dilated above stems entirely enveloped by tubular, sometimes evanescent, leafless to leafbearing sheaths and carrying 6 to7, distichous, spreading, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, obtuse, deeply clasping basally leaves that blooms on a terminal, arcuate to nodding, racemose, to 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising through 1 to 3, large, imbricating, conduplicate spathes and apicular, somewhat elongate floral bracts.

CAUTION Many references state that this species is a synonym of Epidendrum klotzscheanum. I have left it separate for now as Padre Ortiz thought that it was a separate species, so I await more information.

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