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Orchid Species: Epidendrum trilabiatum

Kew currently accepted name is Zygostates lunata

Epidendrum trilabiatum is an orchid species identified by Vell. in 1831. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Zygostates lunata.
Genus
Epidendrum (Epi.)
Grex
trilabiatum
Parents
Species
Author
Vell.
Year
1831
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ORIGIN: This is a eastern Brazil dwarf, warm to cold growing epiphytic species, and is found in wet montane forests in the mist or Paramo zone on mossy trees.

DESCRIPTION: This is a eastern Brazil dwarf, warm to cold growing epiphytic species, and is found in wet montane forests in the mist or Paramo zone on mossy trees, with a very short stem carrying an equitant, fan-shaped array of linear to oblong-elliptic, obtuse leaves that are articulated into the persistent, imbricate, basal leaf sheaths and blooming in the fall and winter on an arching to pendant, 4 [10 cm] long, many [30 or more] flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate bracts.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 or less inches [8 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Zygostates Zyt lunata 1837 Lindl.
Add+ Ornithocephalus Orcp navicularis 1877 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Dactylostylis Dactylostylis fimbrata 1839 Scheidw.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Zyt. lunata 'Kronshagen' (3 awards from 2012 to 2018) Zyt. lunata 'Quelle' (2 awards from 2017 to 2018) Zyt. lunata 'Eisenheim' (2015) Zyt. lunata 'Autal' (2013) Zyt. lunata 'Frank' (2011) Zyt. lunata 'Chi Hon Beauty' (2005) Zyt. lunata 'Spartan' (1980) Zyt. lunata 'Caraguatatuba' (1979)
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