Epidendrum congestoides Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 GROUP Nanodes Photo by ©

and again in LATE

Common Name The Congestum-Like Epidendrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of sea-level to 1000[1800] meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm, pendant growing epiphyte with a simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, erect stems enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 7 to 11, all along the stem, spreading, distichous, unequal, non-articulate, succulent, basally imbricating, glauscous, green, oblong to ovate-oblong, amplexicaul and conduplicate basally, obtuse, unequally bilobed, strongly revolute margins, with a dorsal keel, minutely dentate-fimbriate apically leaves that blooms in the winter and again in the late spring on a terminal, sessile, occuring only once, usually 2 flowered inflorescence with slightly shorter than the ovary, obovate, rounded, conduplicate, imbricating, unequal, apical margin dentate floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, non-resupinate, fleshy flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 136 Hagsater 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 363 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 3 Plate 392 Hagsater 1999 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 920 Hagsater 2007; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 982 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 986 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section