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Nanodes medusae is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1867. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum medusae.
ORIGIN: Found as a medium sized, epiphytic, cool growing orchid in Ecuador in wet montane cloud forests.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a medium sized, epiphytic, cool growing orchid in Ecuador in wet montane cloud forests with a short rhizome giving rise to clustered, cane-like, laterally compressed, pendant stems that are basally branching, and completely enveloped by compressed, conduplicate, fleshy, gray-green, foliaceous sheaths carrying coriaceous, narrowly oblong-ovate, apically unequally bilobed, basally clasping leaves that are somewhat twisted at the base and blooms most often in the summer on an axillary, short, single [sometimes up to 3] flowered inflorescence with fantastic, large, heavy-textured flowers at elevations of 1800 to 2700 meters. Best grown on a mount with cool temperatures and constant moisture and medium light.
FLOWER SIZE: To more than 3 inches [to more than 7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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