Need ID on epidendrum type!

[Shiffdaddy]

I recently went through the Tree of Life Nursery and had the pleasure of viewing an employees amazing orchid collection while on a class field trip! Huge speciments all over the room but one caught my eye

It was a very large mounted on a slab. It grew exactly like an epidendrum does with the long canes of alternating leaves. The big bundle of white roots with green tips lots of keikis and offshoots. The only differences looked like in the flower growth. They didnt bunch up at the end of the flower stalk like a radicans, but they grew randomly down the inflorescence like many orchids (alternating flowers haha). The sepals (i think) looked exactly like that of an epidendrum where they are in like a triangle and are pointed. But the lip was a lot longer and less defined than in the radicans species (without the flare)..

The flowers were a very bright purple/magenta and were a bit larger and "more flimsy" than the epidendrums i have.

I'm sorry about this horrible explanation, i'm trying to do it from memory because i didnt take a picture! I wish i had!! It was beautiful and i kinda want one now haha!

Ben

[Starla]

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like this?

[Shiffdaddy]

Hmmmm no, the sepals and petals are longer and the color is much richer purple.