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Orchid Species: Epidendrum cilioccidentale
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum cilioccidentale is an orchid species identified by Hágsater & L.Sánchez in 2008.
Genus
Epidendrum (Epi.)
Grex
cilioccidentale
(name currently accepted by Kew)
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Hágsater & L.Sánchez
Year
2008
ORIGIN: Found in western Mexico along streams and in pine oak forests at elevations of 450 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Warm to cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with simple, thickened to a fusiform, heteroblastic, striaght pesuobulb enveloped in youth by papery sheaths and carrying a single to rarely a second, apical, erect, coriaceous, articulate, elliptic, acute, margin entire leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, arising on a mature stem, distichous, peduncle laterally compressed, enveloped by 6 to 22, imbricating, acute, progressively longer bracts, rachis terete, thin, striahgt to slightly sinuous, simultaneously 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with half as long to somewhat longer than the ovary, oblong-triangular, conduplicate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, nocturnally fragrant, white flowers with the tepals yellowish green and the callus white to pale yellow.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.9 to 5 inches [7.4 to 12.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
DESCRIPTION: Warm to cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with simple, thickened to a fusiform, heteroblastic, striaght pesuobulb enveloped in youth by papery sheaths and carrying a single to rarely a second, apical, erect, coriaceous, articulate, elliptic, acute, margin entire leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, arising on a mature stem, distichous, peduncle laterally compressed, enveloped by 6 to 22, imbricating, acute, progressively longer bracts, rachis terete, thin, striahgt to slightly sinuous, simultaneously 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with half as long to somewhat longer than the ovary, oblong-triangular, conduplicate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, nocturnally fragrant, white flowers with the tepals yellowish green and the callus white to pale yellow.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.9 to 5 inches [7.4 to 12.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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