Epidendrum anoglossum Schltr. 1911 GROUP Neowilliamsia Photo courtesy Daniel Jimenz

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Common Name The Lip-less Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in elfin and cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 3200 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing orchid with an erect stem enveloped basally by several tubular, loose, acuminate sheaths and carry a few, towards the apex, fleshy, linear, obtuse, abaxially keeled, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on a terminal, racemose, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence with subulate, inflated floral bracts and non-resupinate, simultaneous, distichous, non fragrant flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 116. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 296. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1316 Atwood 1992 as Epidendrum anaglossum; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 126 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 130 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 907 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 908 Hagsater 2007; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 964 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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