Orchid Borealis

I got this compact species from Ecuagenera in spring 2017.  It was a bit dehydrated at first. I mounted it on a cedar shingle, and kept it lying horizontally (instead of hanging the mount).  It managed to recover, and this is the first bloom under my care. Epidendrum moronense shows relatively narrow distribution.  It is from wet forests of south-eastern Ecuador; in the basin of the Río Zamora , on the slopes of the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera del Condor (Hágster, 2015).  They are known from the provinces of Loja , Zamora-Chinchipe , and Morona Santiago . The species epithet is derived from the province, Morona-Santiago, where this species occurs, although the type specimen was collected in Zamora-Chinchipe. The elevation range is 800-1400m (Hágster, 2015). The frilly lip and the reflexed sepals and petals make the flowers interesting.  The column is usually white, and the lip is white, but the color of petals and sepals can vary.  This i...

Epidendrum is a large genus with amazing diveristy.   Epidendrum schizoclinandrium is in Nanodes group ( link to IOSPE ), which contains another cool-looking species,  E.  medusa .  Some of the related species look somewhat similar, and Parsons and Gerritsen (2013, p. 466-469) listed 10 similar species and their geographic distributions: E. gonzalez-tamayoi (Mexico), E. serruliferum (Costa Rica, Central Panama), E. congestum (Costa Rica, Honduras), E. congestoides (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica),   E. schlechterianum (Panama), E. oxynanodes (Colombia), E. uleinanodes (N. Brazil, Ecuador), E. longirepens  (Peru), E. schizoclinandrium (Peru), and E. neodiscolor (Brazil).   Some of them are warm growers and others are cool growers.  I haven't looked into the differences between them, but my plant seems to resemble  E. schizoclinandrium from casual comparison with the photos. The type specimen of E. schizoclin...