Epidendrum adnatum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925 GROUP Albertii SUBGROUP Allenii Specimen courtesy of Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The Adnate Epidendrum [refers to the lip that is united to the column]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador at elevations of 550 to 1700 meters as a miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a simple, cane-like, terete at the base, laterally compressed above, somewhat ancipitose, erect, straight stem carrying 4 to 7, all along the stem, articulate, alternate, suberect, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate apically, cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an apical, rarely lateral, racemose, apically elongate, l;aterally sessile, laterally compressed, ancipitose, two winged, 6 to 20 flowered inflorescence arising through a triangular-lanceolate, subacute, tubular at the base becoming conduplicate towards the apex spathaceous bract

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 901 Hagsater 2007 drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 3 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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