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Epidendrum esmeraldense
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ORIGIN: Found in northern Ecuador in very wet monjtane forests at elevations around 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete, thin, erect, straight stems basally enveloped by tubular, nonfoliar, scarious sheaths and carrying 9, coriaceous, erect-spreadig, alternate, articulate tinged purple, unequal in size, basally smaller, elliptic-lanceolate, short-acuminate, margin entire, spreading leaves that blooms in the early winter on a terminal, erect, racemose, producing new racemes from the same peduncle for several years, peduncle to 4.4 [11 cm] long,thin, laterally compressed, erect, straight, provided with 4, tubular, ancipitous, acute bracts, rachis .6 [1.5 cm] long, 5 [12.5 cm] long overall, densely aggregated towards the apex, simultaneously 8 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying showy, glabrous flowers with the tepals ochre green, the column green along the basal half, white towards the apex,, the calli and ribs of the disc whitish, the rest of the lip magenta.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).