Orchid Species: Epidendrum oenochrochilum

ORIGIN: Found in the departments of San Martin, Huanuco and Junin, Peru at elevations around 1000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with simpe, cane-like, terete, suberect, straight stems carrying 6 to 8 all along the apical 2/3rds of the stem, articulate, alternate, coriaceous, dark green doorsally tinged with dark purple, elliptic, acute, margin entire, spreading, abaxially dark green, adaxially purple leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, arising as a raceme, in time a new raceme arises from the same peduncle in successive years, then pluriracemose, suberect, peduncle 6.4 to 8” [16 to 20 cm] long, thin, somewhat laterally compressed, straight, provided with 5 to 7 tubular, acute bracts, decreasing in size towards the apex, rachis [8 to 11 cm] long, thin, laterally compressed, generally with 1 to 2, short, racemse, laxlysuccessively 17 to 20 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate, amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying disorderly resupinate flowers with the sepals dorsally purple brown, greenish purple internally, the petals purple, the lip yellow brown to dirty pink with the disc pale yellow includsing the calli and the keels, the base of the colomn is green and the apex is white..

FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).