Epidendrum chlorocorymbos Schltr.1922 SECTION Difforme Photo by © Adam Karremans

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Common Name The Green Corymb Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaraga, Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela in lowland and mid-elevation tropical formations at elevations of sea-level to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a terete, slightly flexuous stem carrying elliptic, obtuse to retuse, coriaceous, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an apical, subcorymbose, occurs only once, short, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence and carrying flowers that have a nocturnal, yeasty smell

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17:30. Panama Schlechter 1922; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 570 Hagsater & Soto 2002; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1223 Hagsater 2009 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Part 12 Plate 1258 Hagsater 2009 see recognition section;

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