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Epidendrum guentherianum is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1928. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Encyclia guentheriana.
ORIGIN: Found in Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 50 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 50 to 1700 meters with basally terete, dilated and compressed above stems enveloped completely by close, imbricate, conduplicate sheaths that are articulated and leaf bearing towards the apex carrying 3 to 4 elliptic, basally conduplicate, acute-acuminate leaves that orient to the same plane and blooms in nature in the winter and early spring on a terminal, erect then arching, 8 to 16 long, laxly paniculate, several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem and having 3 close, triangular bracts that diminish in size and minute floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 2/5 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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