Epidendrum coriifolium

 Epidendrum coriifolium Lindl., J. Hort. Soc. London vi. (1851) 218.

Epidendrum coriifolium Lindl., Photo by Fernando Aznar Roman and LazosOrquidea

its native range is Mexico (Chiapas) to Central America.

Latin Name: 

Epidendrum coriifolium Lindl.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Epidendrum fuscopurpureum Schltr.

Epidendrum subviolascens Schltr.

English Name:

The Leather-Like Leaf Epidendrum.

Description: 

With a creeping rhizome, compressed, gradually increasing in size stems completely concealed by distichous, imbricating sheaths carrying a single ligulate, obliquely bilobed, conduplicate below into the base leaf that is bright green on top and purple below with a terminal, erect, to 25 cm long, fractiflex, racemose, that has few to many, fragrant [not nice] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb with imbricating brown basal bracts and large, purple floral bracts occurring in the winter.

Distribution:

Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá. 

Ecological:

In wet subtropical montane forests at elevations of 350 to 1800 m as a medium sized, reedstem, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep slopes.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter.

Flower size:

5.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Light:  

Bright to Shade; 2000-3000 Footcandles (bright indirect light,strong shadowing). 

Temperature:

Bright to Shade; 2000-3000 Footcandles (bright indirect light,strong shadowing).

Watering:

Bright to Shade; 2000-3000 Footcandles (bright indirect light,strong shadowing).

Typus:

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/631639-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:631639-1

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Bulbophyllum_facetum

https://andysorchids.com/pictureframe.asp?picId=2856