~Epidendrum schizoclinandrium D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001 - See Epidendrum uleinanodes GROUP Nanodes

Photo by © Eric Hunt

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Pastorelli, Bennet & Christenson

Common Name The Split Clinandrum Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests on high branches at elevations around 1840 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, epiphyte or rarely terrestrial with short, approximate stems enveloped completely by spreading-recurved, imbricating, thickly rugulose, oblong-ovate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to bilobulate, apiculate, thick-coriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, sessile, mostly 2 flowered inflorescence and carrying large flowers for the plant size.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 653 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Miniature Orchids, A Compendium Parsons and Gerritson 2013 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014; Icones Orchidacearum 18(2) Plate 1879 Hagsater & Jimenez 2021 see recognition section

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