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Epidendrum johannis is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1920. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum nitens.
ORIGIN: Found in Oaxaca Mexico as well as Belize and Guatemala at elevations of 800 to 1320 meters on oaks or in humid rainforests.
DESCRIPTION: Small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, simple, cane-like, laterally compressed towards the apex stems carrying 2 to 3, on the apical 1/2 of the stem, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, subcoriaceous, smooth, entire marginally, articulate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, short, erect, few flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2 conduplicate bracts and nearly perpendicular to the rachis, ovate, rounded, conduplicate, longer than the ovary, progressively shorter floral bracts giving rise to 5 to 12 successive opening flowers with 4 to 7 open at any one time.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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