Epidendrum schizoclinandrium D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001 GROUP Nanodes
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Judy Carney
TYPE Drawing by Pastorelli, Bennett & Christenson
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Common Name The Split Clinandrum Epidendrum
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 1850 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or rarely terrestrial orchid with short stems concealed by distichous, imbricating, oblong-obovate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to bilobulate apically leaves that are thickly rugulose and blooms in the summer and early fall on a sessile, 2 flowered inflorescence with large flowers. This species is often confused with E. schlechterianum but this one has a deeply divided clinandrum and has a very different flower color.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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