Myoxanthus epibator Luer & R.Escobar 1992 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Scandentia Luer 1992
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Climbing Myoxanthus
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia without collection data as a large to giant sized, long, scandent epiphyte that resembles a small bamboo with slender, erect, prolific, 1.2 to 7.2" [3 to 18 cm] long ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 9, tubular, minutely hispidulous sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a very short at the apex of the ramicaul, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, pubescent floral bracts that enclose the pedicel.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide
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