''Epidendrum pseudepidendrum'' (the "''False Epidendrum Epidendrum''") is a species of
orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...
native to Costa Rica and Panama. The upright canes, which can reach 5 ft., bear paniculate inflorescences which can re-bloom for several years.
[A. Phillips and C. Hill. "Reed-Stem Epidendrums" ''Orchids'', Sep. 1998, the American Orchid Society] According to
Reichenbach Reichenbach may refer to:
Places Austria
* Reichenbach (Litschau), a part of Litschau
* Reichenbach (Rappottenstein), a part of Rappottenstein
Germany
* Reichenbach (Oberlausitz), in Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis district, Saxony
* Rei ...
, the strange name is the result of first being named ''Pseudepidendrum spectabile'', before being moved to ''Epidendrum''.
The species
E. xanthoianthinum Hágsater (1993) was first described as a gold variety of this species, with the name ''E. pseudepidendrum'' var. ''auratum''
Rchb.f.
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of ''Icones Florae Germanicae et Helv ...
(1885).
Images
Epidendrum pseudepidendrum Orchi 309.jpg
Epidendrum pseudoepidendrum GotBot 2015 003.jpg
Epidendrum pseudepidendrum - Flickr 003.jpg
Epidendrum pseudepidendrum Orchi 009.jpg
References and external links
*
H. G. Reichenbach "ORCHIDES" in Dr. Carl Müller, ''Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae'' 6(1861)414, Berlin.
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