Epidendrum cooperianum Bateman 1867 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © photo by Ralph Carvalho Araujo and Orchidstudium

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name or Meaning Cooper's Epidendrum [English Orchidist 1800's]

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.2 cm]

Found in Brazil as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with thick, erect, leafy throughout stems carrying rigidly leathery, ligulate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, to 5" [to 12.5 cm] long, pendulous, densely many flowered inflorescence.

Said to be conspecific with Epidendrum longispathum and if so this species takes precedence.

Synonyms epidendrum longispathum Barb Rodr. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965

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