Epidendrum brachyrepens Hágsater 1999 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Repens Drawing by © Jimenez & Hagsater and Epidendra Webpage

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Common Name The Shorter Leaved Epidendrum repens Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica inhumid forests at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing, pendent epiphtye with a much branching, terete, cane-like stems producing very short branches from the apex of the previous stem and carrying numerous, all along the branching stems, coriaceous, ovate, bilobed apically, articulate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, sessile, single flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3 imbricating, conduplicate bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 315 Hagsater 1999 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1388 Hagsater & Salazar 2010 see recognition;

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