Epidendrum vallis-silentii M.Díaz & Karremans 2016 GROUP Difforme

TYPE LCDP by © F. M.Díaz & Karremans

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Valle de Silenti Epidendrum [The Valley of Silence Epidendrum where the TYPE Specimen was discovered]

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica on the Cordillera de Talamanca at elevations around 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with flexuous, laterally compressed, ancipitous stems carrying 2 to 9, all along the stem, articulate, coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, bilobed, margin entire leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, without a spathe, arising on a mature stem, racemose, occuring only once, erect, successively 1, 2 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, acute, conduplicate, transluscent floral bracts and carrying resupinate, yellow green flowers with the column and the lip being white.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Phytotaxa 272(4): 253–255, f. 4A–F. M.Díaz & Karremans 2016 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 8 2017 DRAWING fide;

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