| Epidendrum ibaguense forma red photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | Kunth, Karl Sigmund |
| von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander | ||
| Bonpland, Aimè Jaques Alexandre | ||
| published in | Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto editio) 1 : 352 1816 | |
| forma red | color variety | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Epidendreae | |
| subtribe | Laeliinae | |
| genus | Epidendrum Linnaeus 1763 | |
| metabolism |
CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. |
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| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins |
USA (California, S.Diego), Mexico (Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz), Guatemala (Alta verapaz, Heuhuetenango, |
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Petèn, Quetzaltenango), Costa Rica (Cartago, Alejuela), Guyana (Essequibo, Mt. Attarypon), Antigua, Barbuda, |
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| Venezuela (Amazonas, Zulio, Bolivar, Lara, Tàchira), Colombia (Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, | ||
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Ibaguè (from whichit takes its name this specie of orchid), Darien), Ecuador (Pichincha), |
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Peru (Cajamarca, Cusco, Huanuco), Bolivia (La Paz), Brazil (Bahia) |
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| altitude | 20 – 3200 m (66 - 10560 ft) | |
| habitat |
climate informations from Ibaguè (Ibague, Colombia) |
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| Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
| (no winter season, more abundant rainfall) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1600 m / 5280 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Ibaguè this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 17 m' to 11 h 43 m' | |
| life form | geophyte | |
| brigthness | full sun | |
| inflorescence | length | 50 – 70 cm (20" - 28"), apical |
| nr flowers | 38 - 44 | |
| size | single flower 3.7 L 3.5 cm (1.5" L 1.4") - inflorescence 20 L 10 cm (8" L 4") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 120 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 70 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
