Epidendrum agoyanense Hágsater & Dodson 1993

Inflorescence Photos by © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name The Agoyan Epidendrum [refers to Agoyan Falls in Ecuador]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador on granite rock in grasses on cliffs and steep slopes at elevations of 1100 to 1600 meters as a medium to giant sized, warm growing lithophyte with cane-like, simple, erect stes carrying many all along the stem, ovate-elliptic, acute, dark green leaves and blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, paniculate, suberect, 7" [17.5 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorecence with 1 to 3 large basal bracts.

PArt of the E paniculatum group and is distinguished by having light green flowers with a white lip and the apical lobes of the lip are widely divaricate, nearly opposite and have a narrow sinus separating them from the basal lobes or sometimes united to them.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 101 Hagsater & Salazar 1993