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Orchid Species: Epidendrum angustissimum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum angustissimum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1853.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia on the cordillera central at the Nevado de Tolima to the eastern cordillera near Cuenca Ecuador at elevations of 2900 to 3900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to just large sized, cold growing monopodial, much branching, erect epiphyte with cane-like, terete, more or less straight, the main stem long and branching from the middle and upper internodes, secondary stems consisting of 3 to 11 internodes and those also producing new stems and carrying numerous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, those on the main stem larger than the leaves on the branches that blooms in the late summer through earlier winter on an erect to nodding, terminal, flowering only once, densely, simultaneously 10 to 16 flowering inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale yellow resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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