Orchids in the park - SF September 2010
Ecuagenera Co
Partial shade, cold to cool temperature, flower any time
Found from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as well as Venezuela in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 3700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial along stream banks with erect, elongate, thin, branching, cane-like stems enveloped by tubular, scarious, foliaceous sheaths and carrying a few, narrowly elliptic, basally clasping leaves that are minutely erose towards the apex and gathered towards the apex of the stem that blooms on a terminal, 1x 4 cm long, racemose, seldom branched, successively few flowered, elongating inflorescence arisng from a mature stem and occuring at most any time of the year.
Partial shade, cold to cool temperature, flower any time
Found from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as well as Venezuela in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 3700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial along stream banks with erect, elongate, thin, branching, cane-like stems enveloped by tubular, scarious, foliaceous sheaths and carrying a few, narrowly elliptic, basally clasping leaves that are minutely erose towards the apex and gathered towards the apex of the stem that blooms on a terminal, 1x 4 cm long, racemose, seldom branched, successively few flowered, elongating inflorescence arisng from a mature stem and occuring at most any time of the year.
