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What does epidendrum mean?

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Noun
  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Epidendrum.
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Loddigesii, which was introduced to Europe a few years earlier, passed under the name of epidendrum.
Epidendrum, genus of tropical orchids, family Orchidaceae, with about 1,000 species that are distributed from southeastern North America to central South America.
Generically, it is nearly allied to Epidendrum, from which its eight pollen masses at once distinguish it.
These species are classified as Oncidium, Cattleya, Epidendrum, Cymbidium, Phalaenopsis, Vanda, Dendrobium, Phaphiopedilum, Brassica, Laelia, Mokaram Aranchnis and Miltonia.
Exhibiting at Showcase House since 1980, Hetherington shows how to display flowering orchids like cymbidiums, phalaenopsis, oncidium and epidendrum in the shade.
It looks like a depauperate L. epidendrum, but seems to be constantly collected.

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