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Orchid Species: Nanodes porpax
Kew currently accepted name is Epidendrum porpax
Nanodes porpax is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Brieger & Lückel in 1978.
Genus
Nanodes (Na.)
Grex
porpax
Parents
Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) Brieger & Lückel
Year
1978
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in wet montane and cloud forests at elevations of 400 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing, mat-forming epiphyte with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, somewhat reclining stems carrying 4 to 13, all along the stem, distichous, spreading, slightly arching, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, sometimes conduplicate, subacute, margin minutely ciliate at the apex, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late spring through winter on a terminal, sessile, single flowered inflorescence arising through a hemi-elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, rounded and slightly oblique apically spathaceous bracts and carrying, fragrant, resupinate, fleshy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing, mat-forming epiphyte with simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, somewhat reclining stems carrying 4 to 13, all along the stem, distichous, spreading, slightly arching, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, sometimes conduplicate, subacute, margin minutely ciliate at the apex, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late spring through winter on a terminal, sessile, single flowered inflorescence arising through a hemi-elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, rounded and slightly oblique apically spathaceous bracts and carrying, fragrant, resupinate, fleshy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
| Genus Name | Genus | Grex Name | Year | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add+ | Epidendrum | Epi | porpax | 1855 | Rchb.f. |
| Add+ | Epidendrum | Epi | porphyrophyllum | 1922 | Schltr. |
| Add+ | Neolehmannia | Nha | porpax | 1976 | (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. |
| Add+ | Epidendrum | Epi | vestitum | 1923 | Ames |
Most awarded/recent cultivars:
Epi. porpax 'Chiquita'
(3 awards from
1969
to
1980)
Epi. porpax 'Kugel'
(2 awards in
2016)
Epi. porpax 'Eisenheim'
(2 awards in
2012)
Nha. porpax 'Harford'
(2 awards from
1983
to
1998)
Epi. porpax 'Amy Fuchs'
(2 awards from
1970
to
1973)
Epi. porpax 'David Bealer'
(2018)
Epi. porpax 'ParkSide's Green'
(2014)
Epi. porpax 'Romelia'
(2014)
Epi. porpax 'Elma'
(2008)
Nha. porpax 'Crownfox'
(2002)
Epi. porpax 'Harford'
(2001)
Epi. porpax 'Porpax Mountain'
(2001)
Epi. porpax h.f. album 'Little Dan'
(1999)
Epi. porpax 'Aloha'
(1996)
Epi. porpax 'Par-O-Bek Moonfly'
(1994)
Nha. porpax 'Beetles Galore'
(1993)
Epi. porpax 'Patience'
(1989)
Epi. porpax 'Yondi'
(1988)
Epi. porpax 'Shanti's Pride'
(1984)
Epi. porpax 'Rosemary'
(1982)
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