~Epidendrum tricarinatum Rolfe 1917 - See Epidendrum marcocyphum Kraenzl. 1905 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum

TYPE Drawing of E reflexilobum by © Schweinfurth

Common Name The Three Keeled Epidendrum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Peru on rocks amongst shrubs at elevations around 3070 meters as a small sized, cold growing lithophyte with decumbent basally, erect, above, leafy stem carrying distichous, apparently fleshy, 9 or less, ovate-oblong, to oblong to elliptic-oblong to rarely ovate, rounded, minutely bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, peduncle straight, elongate to 17.4" or more [43.5 cm or more] long, enveloped completely by numerous, close, tubular, scarious sheaths, rachis nodding, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, more or less densely several to many flowered inflorescence with narrowly triangular, long-acuminate, spreading, lower ones longer floral bracts and carrying small, scarlet or crimson flowers with yellow on the lip and recurved sepals and petals and reflexed lateral lobes of the lip.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017;

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