samedi 20 octobre 2012

epidendrum fimbriatum


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 October 20, 2012; Hanging gardens
shade, cold to cool, 
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, 1 3/5" [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.