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Orchid Species: Epidendrum tolimense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum tolimense is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1845.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Colombia and southern Ecuador in paramo at elevations around 2450 to 3400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte and terrestrial with terete, very short branching in the upper half stems carrying numerous, all along the stem, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, acute, margin erose-denticulate leaves that are smaller on the branches that blooms in at most any time of the year on a terminal, from the mature stem and the branches, racemose, short, arching-nutant, .6 to .8 [1.5 to 2 cm] long, more or less successive 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with very triangular, acuminate, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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