Epidendrum bugabense Hágsater 1993 GROUP Polychlamys SUBGROUP Polychlamys Photos by © C D Moulton

Common Name or Meaning The Bugaba Epidendrum [A town in Panama]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Panama on trees at elevations around 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect stems produced from the intermediate node of the preceding stem and carrying to 6, narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, bilobed apically, progressively larger towards the apex leaves that blooms i nthe fall on a terminal, flowers only once, from a mature stem, racemose, inflorecence with 6 imbricating bracts at the base.

Part of the E polychlamys group

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 115 Hagsater 1993; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 154 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 829 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 883 Hagsater 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 911 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section

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