Epidendrum siphonosepalum Garay & Dunst. 1972
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria WebSite
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Tube-Like Sepals Epidendrum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with mat-forming, branching stems enveloped completely by imbricating leaf bearing sheaths and carrying fleshy, ovate-lanceolate, distichous, acute, dorsally angled leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, sessile, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence arising through 2 conduplicate sheaths that conceal the peduncle and has flowers that do not open well.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol II Laelinae Vasquez & ibisch 2004 drawing fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle De Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal. 2014 photo drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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