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Large and variable genus of terrestrial or epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas
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epidendrum
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Epidendrum , abbreviated Epi in the horticultural trade, is a large neotropical genus of the orchid family . With more than 1,500 species , some authors describe it as a mega-genus. The genus name (from Greek ɛpɨ, epi and δένδρον, dendron , "upon trees") ...
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n. (context botany English) Any plant of the genus ''Epidendrum''.
Usage examples of epidendrum.
Hearing, however, these words, he at once asked his wife why she had let the epidendrums die.
Epidendrum, Delicate Ionopsis, Rose Pogonia, Yellow Rhexia, Teyrazygia.