Epidendrum clowesii Bateman ex Lindl. 1844 GROUP Anceps SUBGROUP Polyanthum Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey

Green Variety Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name Clowe's Epidendrum [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size less than 1" [less than 2.5 cm]

Found in Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico south to Guatemala, and El Salvador on sunny slopes and ravine walls in tropical deciduous forests at elevations of 500 to 1600 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte with cane-like, leafy stems carrying relatively broad, articulate to the stem, few to 12, oblong to oblanceolate, acute or subacute leaves that blooms on a terminal, often arching, to 12" [30 cm], simple or branched, few to several flowered inflorescence carrying slightly fragrant simultaneously opening flowersoccuring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Epidendrum chlorops Rchb. f. 1880; Epidendrum flavovirens Rchb. f. 1866; Epidendrum piestocaulos Schlechter 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1146 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1321 Hagsater 2010 fide

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