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Diothonea nutans is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) C.Schweinf. in 1944. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum hemiscleria.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests as a giant sized, cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 2700 to 3300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests as a giant sized, cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 2700 to 3300 meters with cane-like, suberect to arching to sub-pendant stems enveloped completely by numerous, distichous sheaths and carrying narrowly elliptic, acute apically, membraneous leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, slightly shortened, bright red, short, subcapitate, many flowered inflorescence with an umbel of several, simultaneously opening fleshy, orange colored flowers at the apex.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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