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Orchid Species: Epidendrum octandrum

Kew currently accepted name is Bletia catenulata

Epidendrum octandrum is an orchid species identified by Vell. in 1831. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bletia catenulata.
Genus
Epidendrum (Epi.)
Grex
octandrum
Parents
Species
Author
Vell.
Year
1831
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil on embankments, landslides and open clearings in the wet montane forests as well as swampy locations at altitudes of 200 to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial orchid with plicate, deciduous, narrowly linear-lanceolate leaves and tightly clustered, depressed-subglobose corms with basal, foliaceous sheaths that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, 18 to 4' [45 cm to 120 cm] long, erect to arching, racemose or rarely one branched inflorescence with 3 to 9, resupinate, successively opening flowers arising from the middle of the side of an older pseudobulb.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Bletia Bletia catenulata 1798 Ruiz & Pav.
Add+ Bletia Bletia ecuadorensis 1916 Schltr.
Add+ Bletia Bletia rodriguesii 1901 Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Bletia Bletia sanguinea 1835 Poepp. & Endl.
Add+ Bletia Bletia sherrattiana 1867 Bateman ex Hook.f.
Add+ Epistephium Epis herzogianum 1908 Kraenzl.
Add+ Regnellia Regnellia purpurea 1877 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Bletia Bletia repanda 1798 Ruiz & Pav.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Bletia. catenulata 'Irene' (2018)
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