Epidendrum portokalium, Cerro Montezuma

Found throughout north to south central Ecuador in undisturbed forests, disturbed habitats and citrus groves at elevations of 735 to 1600 meters as a giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with simple, terete, cane-like stems carrying 10 to 14, alternate, all along the stem, coriaceous, thin, lanceolate, marginally entire, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring through mid fall on a terminal, racemose, elongate, 20 to 98" [50 to 110 cm] long, terete,.. more