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Epidendrum patens (Epidendrum patens)

Description

It is an orchid epiphytic medium size that grows in the tropical forests, you can also assume a behavior lithophyte in the same environments. It presents a stem erect or ascending, rather slender, covered by leaves that are amplessicauli, distichous, stiff, leathery, shape from ovate to elliptic, rarely oblong-elliptical, at an acute apex. Flowering occurs from late winter until late spring through a ' inflorescence terminal racemosa or paniculata, long petiolate, falling leading many flowers . These are about 3 cm, fragrant, with petals and sepals and white lip trefoil, variegated pink.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Epidendrum