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Epidendrum jajense cf. is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum jajense.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 450 to 2500 meters in wet montane forests on smooth trunked trees.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with short, gradually widening stems enveloped basally by 2 to 3, scarious, loose, tubular sheaths from which a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf that is conduplicate into the apex of the stem arises and blooms on a short, several [3 to 8] flowered inflorescence arising on mature stems and having all the flowers clustered towards the apex.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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