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Orchid Species: Epidendrum melanoporphyreum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum melanoporphyreum is an orchid species identified by Hágsater in 1993.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru as a small to medium sized cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests high in the canopy at elevations around 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Peru as a small to medium sized cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests high in the canopy at elevations around 1300 meters with slender, erect stems enveloped by close, tubular, articulated, foliaceous sheaths with oblong, to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, thin, deciduous, light green, conduplicate, clasping at the base leaves that blooms in nature in the winter and early spring on a terminal, racemose or paniculate, 5 [12.5 cm] long, loosely flowered, purple inflorescence with 2 to 3 basal bracts and triangular, long-acuminate floral bracts and carries a few large [in comparison to the plant], distinctly colored flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [3.2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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