Bract Carrying Epidendrum
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered stems enveloped basally by several tubular scarious sheaths and carry densely many linear-lanceolate, acute, basally conduplicate leaves and blooms on a terminal, erect, loosely 3 to 7 flowered, compressed inflorescence with the peduncle enveloped by imbricating, long-pointed sheathing bracts with showy, fragrant, long-lived flowers occuring in the winter. Flowers are 2 cm wide.
Wet pre-montane and montane forests at 100 to 3,000 m asl.
It has been found in tall forest, disturbed roadsides and in secondary growth.
http://www.orchidspecies.com/epicriniferum.htm
Romand-Monnier, F. & Chadburn, H. 2013. Epidendrum criniferum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. . Downloaded on 25 February 2014.
Color | purple, white, yellow |
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Family | Orchidaceae |