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Orchid Species: Epidendrum ventricosum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum ventricosum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1841.
ORIGIN: Found northern Peru on the northern end of the Cordillera Oriental at elevations of 1900 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cold growing sympodial, subcaespitose epiphyte with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, ancipitous, newly arising from the basal fourth of the previous stem carrying 3 to 5, all along the apical 2/3rds of the stem, unequal, fleshy, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, obtuse, unequally bilobed, margin crenulate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, arising through a tubular, ancipitous, linear-oblong, rounded envelopeing the peduncle, racemose, simultaneously 6 to 17 flowered inflorescence with very short, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, non-fragrant, translucent flowers with the calli whitish.
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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