Epidendrum elleanthoides

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in subparamo on tree and bushes in high cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 3200 meters as a to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with terete, branching stems with distributed all along the stem, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, obliquely acute, margins crenate erose, dorsally carinate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, paniculate, arching-nutant, zigzag, 2" [5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, triangular, acuminate floral bracts and 3 to 6 per branch, distichous, successive, with 1 to 2 open at any one time flowers.