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Orchid Species: Epidendrum chioneum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum chioneum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1845.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 2300 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cold growing terrestrial with simple to more usually branched stems entirely enveloped by close, tubular leaf sheaths and carrying numerous, distichous, ovate-lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, obtuse to apiculate, sessile and basally clasping leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a short and usually nodding, 3 [7.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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