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Orchid Species: Epidendrum cuneatum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum cuneatum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1912.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Bolivia on steep slopes in subtropical humid forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized warm to cool growing terrestrial with cane-like stems enveloped completely by dry, verrucose, dark red brown, tubular sheaths and carrying distichous, coriaceous, spreading, ovate, green with red spots on the upper surface, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a terminal or lateral, racemose to paniculate, 5 to 11 flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 1 to 2, inflated, bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.4 inches [3.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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