Epidendrum confertum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 GROUP Ramosum SUBGROUP Repens Drawing by © Schlechter and Epidendra Webpage

EARLY THROUGH EARLIER

Common Name The Crowded Epidendrum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama in wet cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, prostrate to pendent epiphtye with a Dichaea-Like, branching, terete, cane-like stems producing from several subapical internodes of the previous flowering stem and carrying numerous, all along the stems, complanate, perpendicular tothe stem, coriaceous, strongly carinate, minutely rugose, ovate, acute to acuminate, not articulate below intothe base leaves that blooms in the spring through earlier summer on a terminal, sessile, single flowered inflorescence with a single, triangular, acute bract and ovate, obtuse floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Epidendrum prostratum Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 919 Hagsater 2007 drawing fide;

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