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Orchid Species: Epidendrum neudeckeri
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum neudeckeri is an orchid species identified by Dodson & Hágsater in 1994.
ORIGIN: Found in Narino Colombia and Esmeraldas Ecuador on the Pacific slope of the Andes in very wet lowland rainforests at elevations around 250 to 1050 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect, canelike, terete, often branching towards the apex stem and carrying many on the main stem, few on the branches, all along the stem, erect-spreading, subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic, articulate to the sheaths, acute, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, without a spathe, occurring only once, paniculate, usually with 2-3 racemes separated by the very thin peduncle, .8 to 1 [2 to 2.5 cm] long, erect, successively 2, 9 to 16 flowered inflorescence with half as long as the ovary, triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying yellow green flowers with the apexd of the column white and with the flowers lip always facing the rachis.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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