Epidendrum anastasioi Hágsater 1993 GROUP Difforme Drawing by © Jimenez & Hagsater and Epidendra Website

Common Name Anastasio's Epidendrum [Sr Anastasio Alfaro Costa Rican Orchid Enthusiast and Collector of type current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in wet forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a simple, reed-like, somewhat laterally compressed, slightly zigzag stems carrying 5 to 9, all along the stem, subcoriaceous, thin, elliptic, unequally bilobed, margin entire leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, occuring only once, subumbellate, 15 to 22 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary, ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying resupinate, simultaneously opening flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 106 Hagsater & Sanchez 1993 drawing fide;

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