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Orchid Species: Epidendrum firmum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum firmum is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1866.
ORIGIN: Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in montane wet forests, oak and cloud forests at elevations around 650 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, slightly laterally compressed, straight to slightly flexuous stems carrying 7 to 13, distributed all along the stem, coriaceous, smooth, light green, linear, obtuse, conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an apical, arising on a mature stem, flowering only once, subcorymbose, subsessile, very short inflorescence with ovate acute floral bracts that are much shorter than the ovary and carrying 2 to 4, simultaneously opening, nocturnally scented, resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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