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Epidendrum fusco-purpurea is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum coriifolium.
ORIGIN: Occuring in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela, in wet subtropical montane forests at elevations of 350 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, reedstem, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep slopes with a creeping rhizome, compressed, gradually increasing in size stems completely concealed by distichous, imbricating sheaths carrying a single ligulate, obliquely bilobed, conduplicate below into the base leaf that is bright green on top and purple below with a terminal, erect, to 10 [25 cm] long, fractiflex, racemose, that has few to many, fragrant [not nice] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb with imbricating brown basal bracts and large, purple floral bracts occurring in the winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 to 2 inches [4 to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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