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Orchid Species: Epidendrum pinniferum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum pinniferum is an orchid species identified by C.Schweinf. in 1938.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 800 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with elongate, simple, terete, erect stems enveloped in the lower part by strongly verrucose, non-foliaceous, tubular sheaths and carrying numerous, on the upper 2/3 of the stem, alternate, articulate, elliptic, acute, minutely apiculate, subcoriaceous leaves that blooms in the spring on an apical and lateral near the apex, racemose, laxly few flowered, terete, thin inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acute floral bracts that are much shorter than the ovaries.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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