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Orchid Species: Epidendrum trulliforme
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum trulliforme is an orchid species identified by Garay & Dunst. in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela at elevations around 2500 to 2650 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing, ascending epiphyte with tough, repent rhizome giving rise to erect, canelike, leafy in the apical 1/3, close set, terete at the base, becoming laterally compressed above stems enveloped by tubular, sheaths and carrying thin, mid nerve finely and sharply sulcate, carinate, linear-elliptic leaves that blooms on a terminal, arcuate, lightly branched, peducle terete, enveloped by 1 to sometimes 2, large, highly compressed, green spathe, rather few flowered inflorescence with elongate, narrow, fairly prominent floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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