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Orchid Species: Epidendrum polychlamys
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum polychlamys is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1906.
Genus
Epidendrum (Epi.)
Grex
polychlamys
(name currently accepted by Kew)
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Schltr.
Year
1906
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations between 1100 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on roadside banks near the top ridge of the cordillera with simple, thin, terete, arching, cane-like stems arising from the middle of the previous cane and enveloped by tubular, scarious, acute sheaths becoming fibrous with age and carrying 1 to 3, clustered towards the apex, alternate, articulate, elliptic, spreading, subacute, coriaceous, entire margined leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, occurring only once, racemose, distichous, arching-nutant, densely, successively 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by 2, ovate, acute, conduplicate, ancipitous bracts and has twice as long as the ovary, also covering half the flower, apically progressively shorter, ovate, acute, conduplicate, ancipitous, spreading floral bracts carrying distichous, resupinate, fragrant, yellow, rarely pink colored flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.4 inches [6 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on roadside banks near the top ridge of the cordillera with simple, thin, terete, arching, cane-like stems arising from the middle of the previous cane and enveloped by tubular, scarious, acute sheaths becoming fibrous with age and carrying 1 to 3, clustered towards the apex, alternate, articulate, elliptic, spreading, subacute, coriaceous, entire margined leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, occurring only once, racemose, distichous, arching-nutant, densely, successively 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by 2, ovate, acute, conduplicate, ancipitous bracts and has twice as long as the ovary, also covering half the flower, apically progressively shorter, ovate, acute, conduplicate, ancipitous, spreading floral bracts carrying distichous, resupinate, fragrant, yellow, rarely pink colored flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.4 inches [6 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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