Epidendrum barbeyanum Kraenzl. 1895 SECTION Difforme Photo © courtesy of Epidendra website

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Allen Black

Common Name Barbey-Boissier's Epidendrum [Swiss Orchid Collector late 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua in seasonally dry forests as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations around 500 to 1850 meters with a short stem carrying several [6 to 7], alternate, conduplicate below and basally clasping, oblong-elliptic, apically unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered, terminal inflorescence arising on a mature growth and carrying 5 to 10, simultaneous, nocturnally fragrant flowers in an umbel. Very similar to E difforme but differs in a smaller plant with large yellow green flowers and a lip that is twice as wide as E difforme and has lateral lobes that are much longer apically than the bilobed midlobe

Synonyms Neolehmannia barbeyana (Kraenzl.) Garay & Dunst. 1976

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Neolehmannia barbeyana drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1052 Dodson 1984 as Neolehmannia barbeyana drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 327 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 796 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section as E amparoanum; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 800 Hagsater 2004 see recognition section; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Epidendrum amparoanum; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 802 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 811 Hagsater 2006; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 898 Hagsater 2006; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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