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Epidendrum bletioides is an orchid species identified by Griseb. in 1864. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Encyclia isochila.
ORIGIN: Found in Puerto Rico, Hispanola, Cuba and Jamaica in moist broad-leaved forests at elevations of 30 to 750 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pear-shaped, smooth, shiny pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, apical, stiff, fleshy, coriaceous, linear, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect-spreading, green, slender, 2 to 10.8 [5 to 27 cm] long peduncle with blond to brown, scarious bracts, racemose or paniculate 4 to 16.4 [10 to 41 cm] long, laxly few [to 6 to 8] flowered inflorescence with small cleistogamous green 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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