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Orchid Species: Epidendrum laucheanum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum laucheanum is an orchid species identified by Bonhof ex Rolfe in 1893.
ORIGIN: Found as a small sized, warm to cool growing, reedstem epiphyte in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 800 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a small sized, warm to cool growing, reedstem epiphyte in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 800 to 2100 meters with slender, erect stems enveloped by scarious, acuminate sheaths and carrying narrowly linear-lanceolate, spreading, coriaceous, basally clasping, acute leaves that blooms on a terminal, arcuate to pendulous, simple, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, few to many [to 100] flowered inflorescence with successively opening, non-fragrant flowers arising mostly in the summer.
FLOWER SIZE: To 1 inch [to 2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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