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Epidendrum umbellatum is an orchid species identified by Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. in 1833. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Gastrochilus dasypogon.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina at elevations around 1000 to 3400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with ovate-conical pseudobulbs that are concealed by a few leafless sheathing bracts below and above carry 2, subopposite, ovate, amplexicaule, acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall in situ on a terminal, slender, 4 winged, to 4 [10 cm] long, peduculate umbellate inflorescence with a short rachis that elongates with subsequent flushes of numerous, non-resupinate flowers .
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.5 cm ]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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